Andersen Prunty

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  • Andersen Prunty

  • 33 / Male
  • DAYTON, Ohio, US
  • Last Login: 7/14/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Reading, writing, indolence, experimental hairstyles, wrongheaded thinking.
  • Music

    People who can't sing very well banging on something that may or may not be, technically, an "instrument."
  • Movies

    Just about anything by David Lynch, George Romero, John Waters, Hal Hartley, Woody Allen, Harmony Korine or Wes Anderson along with other movies like: The River's Edge, The Reflecting Skin, Paris, Texas, A Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The Thief, the Cook, His Wife and Her Lover, Pulp Fiction, Ghost World, The Lost Boys, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Naked Lunch, Donnie Darko, The Big Lebowski, Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, David Cronenberg's Crash, Wet Hot American Summer, Sleepy Hollow, The Nightmare Before Christmas, I Stand Alone, Irreversible, Trailer Town, Touch Me In the Morning, Funny Games ...
  • Television

    Bust your television and piss on the whole sizzling wreck.
  • Books

    Here are some people who write good ones: Barry Yourgrau, J.D. Salinger, Russell Edson, Haruki Murakami, Aimee Bender, D. Harlan Wilson, Carlton Mellick III, Kobo Abe, Vladimir Nabokov, Marcel Bealu, Ray Fracalossy, A. Goldfarb, Clive Barker, Ambrose Bierce, Poe, Bukowski, Burroughs, Peter Straub, Tom Piccirilli, Bradley Sands, Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Robert Anton Wilson, Sylvia Plath, Ray Bradbury, Will Christopher Baer, Craig Clevenger, Warren Ellis, Richard Laymon, David Ohle
  • Heroes

    Huffers.

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Zodiac Sign: Pisces
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Smoke / Drink: No / No

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About me:

I write bizarro and horror books and stories. If you've read any of them I'd love to know what you think. Feel free to email me at andersenprunty@yahoo.com. To learn more about me and my upcoming projects, or to read some free fiction, please visit my website at andersenprunty.com.

Read The Beard, a free online novel

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THE NIGHT THE MOON MADE A SOUND
NOW AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL CHAPBOOK FOR ONLY $1.95
ALSO AVAILABLE

ZEROSTRATA

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Description: After ten years, Hansel Nothing returns to his boyhood home, unable to remember anything that has happened to him since he left. Back home, he stays in Zerostrata, a treehouse in the backyard. The nothing family is as dysfunctional and depressed as ever. His mother keeps a cat on her head and incessantly munches prescription medication. His father has left the house to pursue a career as a superhero. His brother has become a shut-in, brooding in the darkened basement. Hansel realizes, after a life of sadness, a life only half-remembered, the only thing he wants is for himself and his family to be happy. But what type of bizarre world must he enter to obtain this happiness?

Available from:

Amazon

Barnes and Noble THE OVERWHELMING URGE

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Description: It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. In this world, vampires and spontaneous combustions are a constant threat. THE OVERWHELMING URGE is a collection of bizarro flash fiction, containing ridiculous characters and absurd stories reminiscent of David Lynch and Franz Kafka. Written at knifepoint in a burning room, this book will make you think of a dirty comedian raving from Freud's couch.

Click HERE to buy.

Here are what some people have said about it:

"LOADED with humor that at times had me laughing out loud." Nick Cato, The Horror Fiction Review

"If you like weird stories, you'll have fun with this." Jordan Krall, author of Piecemeal June and Squid Pulp Blues

"These shorts roll over the reader, drawing a haplessly logical audience further from shore or any other recognizable reference point." Jennifer Barnes, Raw Dog Screaming Press

"This book is... Kharms on acid. This book is really, really fucking cool." Ash Lomen, Raconteur and Elder Statesmen

"Mutants, multiple stories of people taking dumps, and enough absurdity to choke Andre Breton." Jess Gulbranson



JACK AND MR. GRIN

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Description: Jack Orange is a twentysomething guy who works at a place called The Tent packing dirt in boxes and shipping them off to exotic, unheard of locales. He thinks about his girlfriend, Gina Black, and the ring he hopes to surprise her with. But when he returns home one day, Gina isn’t there. He receives a strange call from a man who sounds like he is smiling—Mr. Grin. He says he has Gina. He gives Jack twenty- four hours to find her.

What follows is Jack’s bizarre journey through an increasingly warped and surreal landscape where an otherworldy force burns brands into those he comes in contact with, trains appear out of thin air, rooms turn themselves inside out and computers are powered by birds. And if he does find Gina, how will he ever survive a grueling battle to the death with Mr. Grin?

Advance Praise:

“When Mr. Grin calls you can hear a smile in his voice. Not a warm and friendly smile, but the kind that seizes your spine in fear. You don’t need to pay your phone bill to hear it. That smile is in every line of Prunty’s prose.” Tom Bradley, author of Lemur

“Just imagine David Lynch directing an episode of The Twilight Zone.” Jordan Krall, author of Piecemeal June and Squid Pulp Blues

“Suspense like a 747 in an empty cockpit nosedive. With each new twist jamming the imagery throttle deeper into the titanium of my rapidly melting cranium... Utterly mind fucked!” Bryan Lewis Saunders, author of Sex, Drugs and Institutions, musician/performance artist

“With Jack and Mr. Grin Andersen Prunty firmly establishes himself as a master of the bizarro thriller. Fans of the absurdist/surrealist mysteries of David Lynch and Barry Gifford should seek this book out immediately, and keep it in a dark place.” John Edward Lawson, author of Sin Conductor

Jack and Mr. Grin’s set-up had me expecting a totally-surreal ride, but most of the body of the story actually plays like a standard thriller. Prunty's writing is well done, and just when I thought Eraserhead Press had somehow released a 'normal' story, the third section of the book dives head-first into surreal-bizarro land, packed with odd settings, brutal violence, and some minor head-scratching that cleverly unfolds at a fine pace.” Nick Cato, The Horror Fiction Review

“With Jack and Mr. Grin, Andersen Prunty has enjoyably distilled the brutal tropes and excitement of the best of Stephen King into one stiff shot.” Jess Gulbranson, author of Mel



THE SORROW KING

June 2008

Cargo Cult Press

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Who I'd like to meet:

Arsonists, transients, ranchers, brawlers, old crayons, a cloud, abandoned buildings, interior decorators, hairstylists, weather enthusiasts, liars, sloths and other interesting people/things.

Comments

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  • Jul 11 2009 3:10 PM

    Tickets for the Chicago "FESTIVAL OF FIENDS" is now on sale. With the purchase of a weekend pass you will get. Access to the show and all events. One randomnly inserted autograph card, one autographed 8x10, a free dvd(see site for sample titles, and finally the April 2009 issue of Autograph Magazine featuring the Forrest (Famous Monsters Of Filmland) Ackerman collection. While supplies last.The Festival Of Fiends weekend pass also gets you entrence to the PRICK OR TREAT TATTOO FESTIVAL being held in the same hotel For more info head over to http://ultimatehorrorcon.com/
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  • Jul 8 2009 8:17 AM

    Hi Andersen Prunty


    If you would like to read a sample of one of the stories from ISLINGTON CROCODILES’ you can do that now as one of the stories is posted on the Islington Crocodiles blog page. RAIDERS is the disturbing story of Barwise and Micky.


    As Graham Joyce says in his foreword to ISLINGTON CROCODILES, ‘This is the edge.’


    You can follow this link direct to the blog page



    RAIDERS


    Enjoy it, and let us know what you think, leave a comment.


    Also, if you are interested in buying a copy of ISLINGTON CROCODILES you can, as before, do that here:

    TTA PRESS


    black static


    Thanks for your interest.


    All the best….

  • Jul 7 2009 12:14 AM

    My short horror story FEBRUARY 14th is published at this site http://www.snmhorrormag.com/snmjulyissue1.htm
    If you find the time please go there and leave me some feedback on the READER GUESTBOOK!
    Thanks for your support!
    Your friend,
    Brian
  • Jun 30 2009 5:52 AM

    ANDERSON WELCOME!
    Come Visit a New World.



    - Author of World - Brennon ThompSon



    Read my "First Chapters" in the blog section.
    Read, Respond, & Enjoy.
    Updated Weekly.
    All chapters, past, present, and future can be read at this link:
    http://www.myspace.com/authorbrennon
    You can also follow me on Twitter at this link:
    http://twitter.com/AuthorOfWorlds

    OH and in celebration of our new friendship
    I'M NAKED!!
    Come read my latest "First Chapter."
    Public Relations Cover by my wife, Catherine.  Her
page at http//www.myspace.com/thewonderbug
    It's all about PUBLIC RELATIONS!
    PUBLIC RELATIONS Chapter 1

    Let me hear your feedback.

    - Author of Worlds -
    Brennon ThompSon

    THANKS FOR THE ADD!
  • Jun 25 2009 6:54 PM

    Just dropping you a line to invite you to enter the Sinister Summer Contest at The Monsters Next Door. For details and prize info visit:

    http://www.themonstersnextdoor.com/sinister-summer.html 

    Hope to see your story!
  • Jun 24 2009 12:22 AM

    final ys flyer
  • Jun 23 2009 9:45 PM

    Whats up!
    Just wanted to let you know that we are having an event on June 26th. For all my friends that would like to purchase tickets before hand, I can give you VIP enterance and a discount. Come before 12am for your chance to meet Heather Chadwell and an opportunity to win the raffle of Tony's Smoke Shop package.

    See You there



  • Jun 21 2009 9:19 AM




    Chicks Dig Scars - Chapter One

    Chicks dig scars, everyone knows that, right? Meet Severence DeSnappio, a man who creates ‘fake’ injuries for desperate clients. He’ll get you a stab wound, shot gun blast, snowboarding injury - but a bite from a great white shark?

    S
    et in Miami, Chicks Dig scars is a lyrical, Lynchian mix of dream logic and hard boiled detection.

    Subscribe to my blog to follow the serialization.
  • Jun 20 2009 1:07 AM

    Why tolerate anything less?


    Click to visit Intolerance Records
  • Jun 16 2009 10:18 AM

  • Jun 16 2009 1:45 AM

    Hi! Just wanted to make sure all my friends know that my 2nd horror novel SACRIFICE is now in stores everywhere, including Amazon.com! I hope you'll check out this debauched and demonic horror ride! Here are a couple reviews it's gotten so far:

    “SACRIFICE is a full frontal assault on your senses. It is a dark, brutal, bloody and terribly frightening book. Everson went deep into some dark abyss to bring this book to the light of day.... I highly recommend SACRIFICE.”
    —Famous Monsters of Filmland

    “John Everson manages in SACRIFICE to dispense buckets of blood, provide edgy perversity, and walk the tenuous tightrope of horror and sex without falling: It’s rather an amazing feat.” –Hell Notes
  • Jun 16 2009 12:08 AM

    I just digested your little tale in the new mag. I laughed. I cried. I threw up a little bit in my mouth. I took a shower. It made me feel a bit dirty. Thanks for the experience. It was stellar.
  • Jun 6 2009 6:17 PM

    DAYTON, WE'RE COMING BACK NEXT SATURDAY! see you soon
  • Jun 6 2009 2:41 AM

    Thanks for the add!!!!


    Keep Rockin'
    Mike Meade
    Editor/Writer
  • Jun 2 2009 8:49 PM

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  • May 20 2009 12:26 PM

    Hello new friend

    www.frankburton.co.uk
  • May 19 2009 6:53 AM

    There is a wretched little troll posing as management in a corporate office in Pittsburgh.  It abuses and degrades no less than 18 working class maidens and takes particular delight in terrorizing young receptionists.
    It can generally be spotted by the excessive amount of make-up it wares to hide its true identity- this does easily wash off with water.
    When you have some free time for a trip, I suggest walking around Pittsburgh throwing buckets of water on middle-aged trollish looking women to find it.
  • May 18 2009 11:52 PM

    Please stop by & pay LYNZEE a visit.

    Even just to say hello.

    You might like it!!!

  • May 12 2009 3:24 AM

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  • May 2 2009 4:11 PM

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  • Apr 27 2009 3:26 PM

  • Apr 26 2009 2:07 AM

    Just a short pimp job tonight. Marquee, my chapbook, was released by Insidious Publications last week - limited edition (125 softcovers, 26 Lettered), signed by myself and Tom Moran (illustrator).


    Here's the link:

    http://www.insidiouspublications.com/Marquee.htm

    From Marquee:

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    :)

    John
  • Apr 21 2009 4:31 PM

    hello and thanks for being our friend! We are making limited edition Cal McDonald pulp paperbacks written by Steve Niles. If interested please stop by and say hi and join our mailing list.
    Cheers! Alex & Steve