John Vault

Mushroom Man (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gerald Pembroke owns and runs a mushroom farm in the idyllic country setting of Luddensley village. The supermarket buyers are forcing his prices down to subsistence levels, his attention obsessed wife has been engaged in a string of affairs with younger men and to top it all he discovers that one of his employees is using his facilities to grow hallucinogenic Liberty Cap mushrooms as a sideline.
After further pressure from his buyers and mounting maintenance bills, Gerald temporarily turns the entire facility over to the production of Liberty Caps and finally starts making serious money.
Unfortunately the local drug dealers, now bereft of their clientele, don't quite see it Gerald's way. And where the drug dealers go, the police are never far behind.
After a visit by the local constabulary and in a fit of drunken panic, Gerald disposes of his entire crop down the old farm well, inadvertently contaminating the water supply to the local spring water bottling plant, and the entire village population soon discover the harsh delights of hallucinogenic paranoia.
A bizarre set of circumstances then ensues that by comparison makes the Salem witch trials look like a fun day out.
In The Mushroom Man John Vault assembles another array of delightfully dysfunctional characters and plunges them way out of their depth into nightmare situations. There's comedy, tragedy, villainy, at least three buckets of blood and a huge body count. Who could want more?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781465856289
• Artikelnr.: 45455740

Autorenporträt

I'm an Englishman abroad in New Zealand, having moved here from the UK about four years ago. Writing for me has evolved from a means of escapism into something of an obsession. A subject that plays a major part in the content of many of my stories. Yes I'm pretty much infatuated with lunacy. It scares the hell out of me. It's all the unpredictability I think. My writing style is unorthodox and rarely sticks firmly to the genre for which it is presented, which is good because formulaic horror is like an 80's pop single. Same old, same old. I like to flip rapidly between gory horror and farcical comedy. I think that this kind of contrast amplifies the effects of both. It certainly affects me that way. I saw a film once, a long time ago, called 'The old dark house'. It was basically horror comedy but it was done so well that it just creeped me out for months! Another of my favourites (for all the wrong reasons) is 'Eraser head'. The atmosphere in this movie just blew me away. I've been criticised in the past for rampant use of expletives in character dialogue but I don't care. The characters that I write about actually live for me. I get to know them like friends and all my friends swear like troopers!
I consider myself a normal man, having a wife, children and several household pets, but I have a real dark side and the best way to appease it is to write horror stories. I don't like stuff where the hero always wins out because justice has no place in horror either. Sometimes the hero and the villain are the same character. Sometimes the villains win and the heroes meet with ghastly deaths. When you see the villain/monster die in flames at the end of a movie, it's over. Why not let it live and enjoy the possibility that it just may turn up at your bedroom window in the middle of the night? Isn't that sooo much sexier?
If you want to get in touch please feel free to do so. But no stalkers please. I'm fully booked in that department until somewhere around January 2025! I can be reached via my e-publisher at:

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