Abnormal Statistics

by Max Booth III

Overview

"Abnormal Statistics takes us on a desolate walking tour of the everyday American nightmare. Come see what's happening behind the closed doors and shuttered windows of your neighbors, your best friends, the people you trust most. Bleak and bloody horror that's as raw and immediate as a pile of yellowed teeth, roots and all." -Trevor Henderson, creator of Siren Head

Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection from Max Booth III.

Bad times are waiting for you.

Featuring 10 reprints and 3 stories original to this collection (including a brand-new novella called Indiana Death Song).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781954899148
Publisher:	Apocalypse Party
Publication date:	03/23/2023
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.60(d)

Editorial Reviews

01/23/2023

In this impressive collection of 13 horror shorts, Booth (Maggots Screaming!) surveys the unnerving, the gory, and the grim. The volume is bookended by standout tales, opening with the novella “Indiana Death Song,” which follows a homeless teenager who discovers that he can experience the lives of dead people by sucking on their teeth, and closing with “List of Familicides in the United States (By Decade),” which calls back to that first piece in the form of a Wikipedia article chronicling its fallout. Booth creates fever dreams that weave the chillingly impossible with the all-too-probable, as in “You Are My Neighbor,” in which a devout Christian family hides a terrible secret in their basement, and “Fish,” about a teenager who agrees to far more than he realizes in a bargain to lose his virginity. The stories with no fantastic element—including “Munchausen,” inspired by the murder of Dee Dee Blanchard, and “Video Nasties,” inspired by the murder of James Bulger—are dulled by comparison to what Booth can do in full flight. Still, any fan of boundary-pushing indie horror will be delighted. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly