In Rest Area, Clay McLeod Chapman offered a view into the lives of
Southern Gothic monstrosities. Now, the 40 tales of Nothing Untoward
delve into the depraved minds of those madmen and women who drift along
the periphery of humankind. Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes
strangely heartbreaking, these stories explore the domestic horrors of
the everyday, finding terror within our own households. Haunting and
hilarious, these sharply tuned diatribes are more than simple horror
stories in the traditional sense. These offbeat psychological portraits
are presented from the perspectives of the very monsters themselves. The
heroes of these tales are murderers, loners, and drifters. Spanning over
20 years of the rigorous storytelling session "The Pumpkin Pie Show "
the tales collected here are to be read out loud - or to yourself, if
you're brave enough. The oral tradition is alive and well with these
stories, captured on the page for you to share around the campfire, or
flip through in bed late at night. These are ghost stories for people
who don't believe in ghosts, haunted by their own crumbling minds and
wounded hearts. A perfect mixture of tongue-and-cheek gallows humor,
psychological terror, and character-based storytelling, Nothing
Untoward: Stories from "The Pumpkin Pie Show" focuses on the darker side
of domesticity and won't let go.
