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Zom Bee Moo Vee & Other Freaky Shows | 
| Author: Mark Mclaughlin
Publisher: Fairwood Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 5795963
Media: Paperback
Pages: 58
ISBN: 0966818415
EAN: 9780966818413
ASIN: 0966818415
Publication Date: November 11, 1999
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
This chapbook is an A-Z collection of Cinematic Fantasy. It contains stories and poems about movies and TV programs...but you've never seen these shows. They do not exist. There is no foreign movie called OH, BUT YOU WILL. No Christmas special called SANTA'S ELVES MEET PAINSETTIA PLONT. No Fifties sitcom called THE LITTLE PERKY SHOW, sponsored by Koala Kough Syrup. No bedroom comedy called GRANDMAMA's NAUGHTY PERFUME. And there has never, ever been a horror film called ZOM BEE MOO VEE....Until Now.
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| Customer Reviews:
 WEIRD stuff August 4, 2000
When I first began reading this collection, I thought McLaughlin's writing was an acquired taste. But the further I got into his world, the more I understood and appreciated the in jokes and his use of the campy conventions of the movie genres he satirizes. Although these movies don't exist, they could, and probably not in too different a form from the way he writes them. Mutated animal-like forms play a role in many of the stories, and an apocalyptic ending is usually in order. I had to wonder constantly where I was in relation to McLaughlin's universe. Although his stories strike me as being somewhat context-free and lack a certain continuity, these qualities enhance the reader's feeling of disengagement with the "real" world, which might very well be requisite for entering his dark (although oddly humerous) landscapes.
 Dark & Delightful December 9, 1999
P. Orullian
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This collection is a must for people who like good writing that has the ability to both inspire whimsy and chill the blood. Mark McLaughlin is aptly named--Mc LAUGH lin. But don't become to comfortable, because the moment you start laughing, you are somehow awakened to the joke, and it ain't always so funny. I love this book, and kudos to Fairwood Press for publishing it. Writers like Mr. McLaughlin and publishers like Fairwood are the reason literature continues to live in a world of big books and corporate mergers. Hazzah! I await McLaughlin's next triumph!
A Ghoulish Souffle! December 8, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In this latest work from Mark McLaughlin, the author takes the seemingly disparate elements of humor, horror, and the surreal and whips up a delightful literary mince-pie just in time for the holidays. Recommended for the humor readers that don't care for the horrific and the horror fans that don't normally opt for the humorous; in short, there's flavours here for one and all! McLaughlin's deft blending of such disparate ingredients shows why many have referred to him as "the Graham Kerr of the Macabre".
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