D.M. Guay: The horror comedy author lets you visit 24/7 Demon Mart in a new 3-in-1 edition
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One loser, one talking cockroach, and one karate-chopping bombshell are all that stand between YOU and Hell on Earth.
The horror comedy author offers a new 3-in-1 omnibus to introduce you to the 24/7 Demon Mart books for fans that want frightening and funny.
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Monster Complex checks in again with D.M. Guay, whose 24/7 Demon Mart horror-comedy series is perfect for fans of Shaun of the Dead and Evil Dead 2. A horror fan who loves stand-up comedy, Guay mish-mashes her love of all that’s scary and/or gory and/or geeky and/or funny into stories about creeps and critters, ghouls and ghosts, and all of the unseemly things that go bump in the night.
“I write horror comedy—monsters, with laughs,” Guay told Monster Complex in our interview with her. “If people laugh, I have succeeded.”
The latest release in the 24/7 Demon Mart series is the omnibus edition 24/7 Demon Mart Books 1-3: A monster horror comedy collection. We have some more info below about the collection, some comments from the author, and a list of the entire series.
About 24/7 Demon Mart Books 1-3: A monster horror comedy collection
Dig into the first THREE books of the 24/7 Demon Mart series. More than 750 pages of laugh-out-loud horror comedy, chock full of zombies, Lovecraftian hell beasties, and unemployed grim reapers. The series works for fans of A. Lee Martinez (Gil’s All-fright Diner), Rick Gualtieri (Bill the Vampire/ Tome of Bill), and Christopher Moore (Practical Demonkeeping).
The 24/7 Demon Mart 3-in-1 edition includes:
Book 1: The Graveyard Shift—Lloyd Wallace is the most clueless crossing guard the intersection of hell and earth has ever seen. His coworkers—a karate-chopping bombshell and a talking roach with a bad attitude—need Lloyd's help to keep the demons in line. Can he man up and become a world-saving hero? The fate of the world is on the line.
Book 2: Monster Burger—Things haven’t been quite right at 24/7 Demon Mart since a handful of vengeful beasts from beyond nearly destroyed the store in a bid to unleash hell on earth. And Lloyd Wallace, one-time world-saving hero, is too scared to leave his house. Because zombies are real (and a valued part of the Demon Mart team). It’s up to DeeDee, Lloyd, and Kevin to save the day again, before Columbus, Ohio, turns into Zombie, Ohio.
Book 3: Angel Trouble—The grim reaper’s lost his job. He’s been stripped of his scythe and banned from reaping. The angel of death has officially fallen. And he crash-landed at 24/7 Demon Mart. Lloyd, Kevin, and DeeDee soon find that living with the angel of death isn't easy. As unreaped souls stack up and the specter of death looms larger, what's the Demon Mart crew to do?
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“I love horror,” Guay told Monster Complex. “I love supernatural monsters. I love stories about normal people interacting with big, supernatural things, and I really love campy low budget B movies. My goal is to successfully mishmash all of that into book form, and then hope like hell it will make readers laugh.”
One thing that Guay and I have in common is we love monsters in the, well, fantastic sense. “Honestly, I prefer supernatural stories,” she told me. “Creature features. Cryptids. Something involving not-humans.”
Yes, she knows that the category of “horror fiction” can often include more violent stuff like slashers and serial killers and the like. And she’s fine that others want to read that kind of stuff—but it’s not what she wants to write. If only because they’re too real—after all, she can see that kind of stuff talked about in the news.
“So, if I’m spending leisure time on something, I want it to have a magical element,” she says. “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.”
Find more about D.M. Guay online
DM Guay’s Horror Comedy Corner (private Facebook group)
Author newsletter Monsters in your Inbox (sign up here)
D.M. Guay: Horror Author Q&A—“My goal is to hope like hell it will make readers laugh.”
The Complete 24/7 Demon Mart series
24/7 Demon Mart (Main series)
The Graveyard Shift: A Horror Comedy (Book 1)
Monster Burger: This one has zombies in it (Book 2)
Angel Trouble: A grim reaper comedy (Book 3)
(Re)Possessed: A demon horror comedy (Book 4)
Revenge of the Furballs: A vampires vs werewolves comedy (Book 5)
(Dis) Enchanted: MORE witches! (Book 6—coming soon)
24/7 Demon Mart Stories
Hell for the Holidays: A 24/7 Demon Mart Christmas Special
Critters from the Poo Lagoon: A 24/7 Demon Mart Creature Feature
24/7 Demon Mart Short Reads
Kevin vs The Mothman
Kevin vs The Loveland Frogs
Kevin vs Lloyd
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