An Augmented Fourth

by Tony McMillen

Overview

Codger Burton, bassist and lyricist for Frivolous Black, the heaviest heavy metal band to ever come out of the UK, awakens to find his hotel snowed in, his band mates evacuated, and monsters roaming the halls. Looks like Codger picked the wrong week to quit using cocaine. From the twisted mind of Tony McMillen comes the hilarious rock and roll horror of An Augmented Fourth, a novel of the Lord of Low End.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781939905314
Publisher:	Word Horde
Publication date:	06/27/2017
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Tony McMillen is the author of the novel Nefarious Twit and the graphic novel Oblivion Suite. He grew up mostly in Tucson, Arizona but now lives outside Boston with his wife and their invisible dog whom they call Invisipup. It's all so very damn precious. He writes, draws and plays the guitar but seldom all at the same time.

Editorial Reviews

07/10/2017
In this monster thriller, McMillan gleefully takes the heavy metal aesthetic to its most gruesome logical end. Codger Burton is in crisis, trying to kick all his vices at one shot, when he gets snowed in with a few other rock show stragglers—and without his manager. Codger must endure both the weakness of kicking cocaine and the shock of being exposed to the sources of his own musical inspiration. Dread and body horror amp up as he’s threatened by supernatural beasts with a taste for musicians. Every effort to survive is twisted to take Codger one step closer to an uncertain but surely dreadful fate. McMillan uses the limited scope of the venue to his advantage, transforming a luxury hotel into an inescapable prison. Steeped in musical lore, the violence echoes the terrors of fame and excess. Though the resolution is intentionally vague, this is a rare work in which lack of clarity supports the terror rather than undermining it. (July)

Publishers Weekly