Boy, do I hate these weekly letters to the authors. We published one. single. book. about the horrifically raw emotional rending of a woman's psyche after the end of her marriage to a man destined for sainthood, if only it weren't for his series of affairs with younger women. Oh yeah, and there were giant eleven-legged half amoebish brain-eating slugoids from M31 which destroyed the northern hemisphere in there too. And now we're deluged with authors who want to Show us the cover of a classic literary work remixed to include zombies, monsters, vampires, or other horror elements. Sigh...Dear Mr. Aquinas: While we appreciate the contrast that re-animated vampyres would bring to your treatise, we regret that the disjointed way in which you added them to the story would not really interest our publishing house's readers. Incidentally, we do not have the technology to smear actual human blood over the pages of the second half of the book...
First Place - $100
jatanis - Clifford The Big Dead Dog
"No, little guy, Clifford isn't really dead. I know you can see him on the screen there, but it's just someone's bad taste idea of a jok- see, Clifford is OK, here at Amazon.com! No, that other page was nothing, just forget all about -here, now who wants a cookie?"
Second Place - $50
boredbabe90 - uncle tom's cabin of horror!
This disturbs the hell out of us, and yet...awesomely scary!
Third Place - $20
zilla81 - The Old Man and the Sea Monster
"Jonah? Jonah! You get back from that thing! Stay back, you don't know that it's really dea- Oh my God! Jonah! Jonah!"
Honorable Mentions:
mwiseman - Chop on Pop
Being a surprisingly warm (and wet) tail about the childhood antics of Lizzy Borden and her mysteriously disappeared twin.
snackbot - Bride of Bovary
In which a newly reanimated ingenue learns the ins and outs of running a gothic castle while staying out of the sun.
rickrocket - JaneWere
In which her lycanthropy causes a young girl to kill everyone she knows, except her one true love, Rochester Talbot.
ActorTom - Anne of Green Goblins
Moving to a new place always holds some surprises, doesn't it?
allcirca - Jack and Jill
...well, you know.
toby8915 - Silent American
If a self blinded man falls over a downed tree in the forest, can anyone hear him scream? Bueller? anyone?
BML0579 - The Bookstore
A surprisingly good selection of our books, demonstrating how many other excellent possibilities there were available to choose from.
Monkey Prize
stunnard -Rise of the killer fart
We're stunnarded.
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