The tales go like this (in order)...
Tale #1 - Bombshell Galore, about a high-class escort named Katie who kills her lovers for pleasure and big money, until she meets her match, or does she?
Tale 2 - The Torment of Ignorance, about a fraidy cat grave tender named Derrick who is repeatedly harassed and beaten by two masked assailants while on the job. Police help does nothing for him. He needs a miracle. Enter into the equation, God's Angel of Wrath, Robert the Mystic.
Tale #3 - Sunken Bliss, about three longtime buddies, Tito, Matt and Jacob, who all find themselves in desperate predicaments a la dire financial straits. One has a wife to be who spends like money is as easy to acquire as Monopoly funds, one is a gambling addict, one has a dead wife and a terminally ill son whose hospital bill is sky high.
At their local saloon Paulie the bartender offers them a treasure map. It pinpoints a supposedly hidden chest of jewels buried deep in the water of Lake Sabuku. They have no choice, they feel, but to take him up on his offer. Should be interesting.
Tale #4 - An Innocent Perspective
A nonverbal autistic child named Billy is attacked by the world from all angles. Always has been since his inception. He is kidnapped and held for ransom by some of the baddest mofos around.
I feel bad for the kidnappers...They are as good as deceased when they swoop little Billy up to play hide the mute 'til his rich mommy and daddy fork over the cash.
Tale #5 - Funhouse Misery
A circus full of social misfits, big, small, short, tall is headed by the weirdest of them all. Sergio the Conductor. His two best pals, Terrance the Strongman and Layla the Gypsy, assist him the most of the whole troupe. The reason being, they help him murder all the rapists, by the dead of night, who visit their carnival thinking pleasantries and warmth is all they have to offer. Those heathens gotta pay, with their asses!
Tale #6 - Grave Mistake
Lead Scientist Ogden of the country's Extraterrestrial Research group is tyrannized on the daily by his boss, General Atkins. Ogden's job is simple. Find an alien and research it to death! Put it through the ringer to find out everything about it. After much time unable to locate any worthy live specimens, Ogden hits pay dirt when an alien, he eventually deems as 'Hope', literally comes crashing down on the dirt. Needless to say, threats are made and someone's gotta get slayed! Who'll it be?! Step right up and claim your coffin!
Tale #7 - Flirting With The Heavens
Lisa and Cory, a match made in heaven! Not really. Lisa is bullshitting the skinny, pencil neck geek. Her real true love is Ferdinand Von Lipowitz. Romance extraordinaire and exemplary daddy long dick. Cory is lured to a trap by Lisa. She feeds him right to Ferdinand. Bet she never anticipated a lover's quarrel to ensue after that! Uh oh!
Tale #8 - Murder At Marion Manor
Mr. Marion, along with his personal bodyguard, Boris, invite people over to his castle of a mansion so they can murder them, chop them up, and fry, grill and sauté them to be tasty morsels for the next edition of their menu. Marion only murders other killers, delinquents and vile, wicked creatures. All his house guests are also filthy rich and he offers them more money whilst letting them know not all will survive the duration of their visit. And they ACCEPT! Dat greed! Oh well! Fuck 'em! No sympathy for the sinful.
Let the cannibalistic games begin!
Here is the synopsis of Tales of the Morbid and Vulgar (Volume 1):
Enter the town of Maverick Pleasance. Sounds like a perfectly good name for a perfectly swell town, yeah?
WRONG! See, the inhabitants of Maverick Pleasance are anything but normal and upstanding. They are wicked, vile, corrupted, rotten to the bone. Not all of them but the dominating majority are in one fashion or another. Cannibals, murderers who kill their lovers after sex escapades, a banshee, at the bottom of an infamous lake, hungry for human souls who just so happens to have a connect, willing to satisfy it's urges, in the form of a badly balding barkeeper, soft grave tenders getting pushed around, injured and mangled beyond recognition, an autistic boy always having to be on his guard to avoid exploitation, a multi billionaire who invites guests over just to kill them for pleasure, a couple who eradicate other young, innocent couples, a circus conductor, a strong man, and a gypsy who work together to rid the world of men with certain devious sexual proclivities, plus who knows how much more? With an ensemble of characters like that what would this collection of intertwining books be without a maniacal narrator at the beck and call to do a play by play of all the heinous carnage and dysfunctional occurrences? Well, quite simply put, it would be an anthology without a maniacal narrator at the beck and call to do a play by play of all the heinous carnage and dysfunctional occurrences! But, lucky for you guys, that's not the case in this instance. This anthology has a maniacal…Oh, you get it? Get it! Got it! GOOOOODDDDD!!! Let's get to the morbidity, vulgarity, and hatred. Tons and tons of hatred. Metric.