D.M. Guay: Hell for the Holidays [Spotlight]
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A Christmas story that’s a companion to horror-comedy book series 24/7 Demon Mart
In D.M. Guay’s seasonal follow-up to her Demon Mart series, Hell for the Holidays, the tree is trimmed. The mistletoe is hung. The eggnog is spiked. It’s time to celebrate the merriest, most heart-warming Christmas ever!
Or not? No. Definitely, absolutely not.
This Christmas won’t be cheerful. It’ll be more like Ash vs Evil Dead meets National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. The Wallace family’s annual Christmas Eve party is about to skid off the rails.
When a truckload of newly minted ghosts mix with the snowstorm of the century, the neighborhood snowmen turn into blood-thirsty fiends. Their ghastly quest for revenge draws them to the brightest, loudest, most Christmasy place in the neighborhood: The home of Lloyd Wallace, hapless employee of the 24/7 Demon Mart, a local corner store where the beer cave doubles as the gate to hell.
The possessed snowmen crash a party packed with unpleasant relatives, back-stabbing socialites, one inconsolable cockroach, three bad-ass demon fighters, and too much alcohol. This picture-perfect holiday soon goes straight to hell.
This Christmas story is a companion to 24/7 Demon Mart, a humorous, dark fantasy, horror-comedy book series for fans of Christopher Moore (The Stupidest Angel), Terry Pratchett (Hogfather), Mark Cain (Circles in Hell series), and Heide Goody & Iain Grant (Candy Canes and Buckets of Blood and “Last Christmas,” an Oddjobs short story).
Hell for the Holidays: A 24/7 Demon Mart Christmas Special
(24/7 Demon Mart Stories #1)
D.M. Guay
Categories: Horror Comedy, Satire Fiction, General Humorous Fiction
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In her interview with Monster Complex, author Guay talked about what SHE looks for in a good monster story: “Honestly, I prefer supernatural stories. Creature features. Cryptids. Something involving not-humans…. If I’m spending leisure time on something, I want it to have a magical element. Or be funny. Or have a twist. I want to experience something super-natural, in the literal sense of the word. It’s more fun for me. Give me a mothman, a lagoon creature, a kaiju, a Frankenstein, a ghoul, or a good ghost story, and I am all in.”
Guay explained to Marilyn Vix how her favorite paranormal author influences her own writing. “Charlaine Harris pulls off a level of detail and description in her characters and places that not a lot of authors can. When I’m stuck in one of my own stories, I read one of her novels, and instantly can get unstuck, back to the keyboard and writing again.”
Related links:
D.M. Guay: The horror comedy author lets you visit 24/7 Demon Mart in a new 3-in-1 edition
D.M. Guay: Horror Author Q&A—“My goal is to hope like hell it will make readers laugh.”
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