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One Bloody Thing After Another is about a girl named Jackie. Jackie's mother, who died of cancer, is still around. Glowing in the dark, vomiting into the toilet, and nobody else can see her. This sort of thing can make a girl act out, and Jackie gets herself into some trouble. Some fun and sort of unhinged trouble, but it's trouble. And Jackie has a crush on a girl named Ann, though Ann has other things to worry about. Her own mother and sister have turned into violent creatures, and she has to keep them locked in the basement so they won't hurt anyone. They need to be fed living things. So Ann starts hunting neighbourhood pets. She is against this idea, but you know . . . family is important. One Bloody Thing After Another is a funny, strange, and sad horror book. This isn’t a gorefest, though a plump baby or two wind up on the menu. This is about the horror of losing your family, and the things people will do to hold on.

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[Comeau] turns his adaptable talents to overt horror in this oddly touching novel of ghosts, friendship, bloody secrets, and family relationships. . . . A staccato structure allows for surprising intricacy in so few pages, and the crescendos of terror are leavened by moments of unexpected humor and warmth. -- Publishers Weekly Pilkey is a lively writer who manages over 230-plus pages to build a vivid sense of cop culture --Toronto Sun The tone is poignant, sometimes wistful, and deadpan funny . . . The novel is more eccentric than gory, and what's really shocking about it is that all the mayhem is finally about family ties, both severed and reconnected. --Booklist Comeau isn't writing for suspense. Dealing with a zombie mother is treated with the same tone as Jackie's confusion and struggle over her love for Ann . . . The real monster tormenting Comeau's characters is the desire for something they can't have and the reluctance to accept what they do. -- Telegraph-Journal The gore and supernatural elements are a fitting complement to [Comeau's] characteristic blend of pathos and black humour. --Quill & Quire Comeau never trivializes his characters' emotions, and it's what carries the novel from first bloody page to last. -- Coast This is a remarkably tender novel. . . . Quirky to a marvelous fault, Comeau's fourth book is an intricate exercise in offbeat storytelling. --Q Syndicate A really fascinating tale . . . the sort of book that Edgar Allan Poe might have enjoyed. --Scene Magazine

It is [Comeau's] innate ability to imbue the horrific with a sense of fragile humanity that makes this book a must-read. . . . It doesn't get much lovelier-and bloodier-than this. -- Fangoria

Canadian author Comeau, best known for his darkly surreal Web comic, A Softer World, turns his adaptable talents to overt horror in this oddly touching novel of ghosts, friendship, bloody secrets, and family relationships. . . . A staccato structure allows for surprising intricacy in so few pages, and the crescendos of terror are leavened by moments of unexpected humor and warmth. -- Publishers Weekly Yet for all the violence and unsettling imagery (and we may be thankful that the worst of the very bad things happen offstage), we feel sympathy for these characters; in large part because it is their sympathy for others that leads to so much trouble. . . . As a fast-paced, fragmented tale of terror for an accelerated culture, it's bloody good. -- Toronto Star The tone is poignant, sometimes wistful, and deadpan funny . . . The novel is more eccentric than gory, and what's really shocking about it is that all the mayhem is finally about family ties, both severed and reconnected. -- Booklist The gore and supernatural elements are a fitting complement to [Comeau's] characteristic blend of pathos and black humour. Comeau's prose is simple and direct, and the short chapters -- many less than a page -- make for a quick read. Though the book contains a good deal of grue, the plot is more playful and inventive than horrific or suspenseful. The reader gets caught up in Jackie and Ann's adolescent exuberance. -- Quill & Quire It is [Comeau's] innate ability to imbue the horrific with a sense of fragile humanity that makes this book a must-read. . . . It doesn't get much lovelier-and bloodier-than this. -- Fangoria

A really fascinating tale . . . the sort of book that Edgar Allan Poe might have enjoyed. --Scene Magazine

Author Information

Joey Comeau is the author of Lockpick Pornography, Overqualified, and Too Late to Say I'm Sorry, as well as the popular web comic A Softer World. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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