The Cozyville Werewolf (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798345652701)

THE WEREWOLF IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO WILL BE HOWLING - YOU'LL BE HOWLING TOO! WITH LAUGHTER! ... WHEN MONSTERS INVADE THE NATION'S COZIEST TOWN!!

Narrated with side-splitting humor - and laugh-out-loud zany - we guarantee this is the funniest book you will read this annum.

On the outside Cozvville looks just like the kind of smalltown everyone dreams of relocating or retiring to: a Mainstreet lined with quaint little shops and old-fashioned cafes, snug little houses complete with porches, swings, and well-mowed yards, pleasant, smiling neighbors - a place where all the mysteries would be cozy, where murder victims expire over tea painlessly and bloodlessly.

But maybe you'd better give it a pass. Behind the scenes ghosts glide silently through the air, banshees howl, demons, well, do all manner of demonic things, and werewolves - what they do is neither bloodless nor cozy. And most terrifying of all is Aunt Cornelia who pens cozy cat mysteries, and looks just like the kind of sweet little old lady who sits on a rocking chair in the corner knitting blankets for newborns - but is in fact just about the meanest, sharp-tongued old biddy - with an unkind word for everyone - you'd hope never to meet.

Welcome to Cozyville - but better roll up the car windows and drive on without a single stop and as expeditiously as possible.

That's just what newsman and cartoonist Mike Scott didn't do - and that mistake is just what's coming back to haunt him.

First the newspapers new publisher, who's arrival had only been announced the night before via email, bounces right in his office door and fires him on the spot. Then Aunt Cornelia shows up on his doorstep and settles in for a long visit just in time to treat him to a catechism of his, in her mind, plenitude of faults.

Next Mike takes a little trip to his favorite tippling spot, only to find it completely redecorated in a style that would have done any 1920s bootlegger proud - and filled with customers he has never seen before: a somewhat-facetious, swashbuckling, silent-film star, a short, bug-eyed man who specialized in playing evil characters in horror films, a famous Indian sidekick from television westerns, and a beautiful, pre-code, bottle-blonde temptress.

Mike is so furious about the day's events he is super-slow to catch on - but when he does, he realizes he has stepped out of the world he has known into a watering-hole somewhere between the astral plane - and the twilight zone. Nor does he know that before the day is out he will question his sanity, and beg for help from a clutch of 1920s ghosts, finding himself the leader of as unlikely a group of warrior wraiths as was ever assembled.

You'll howl at every page as Mike Scott and his newly formed squadron of ghosts fight for the future of the world against a host of supernatural evils including: a powerful devil-worshiper set on opening the gates of Hell, a phony psychic who has unknowingly brought death from another world, a demon with a one-track mind determined to kill Mike Scott and - as if that isn't enough, a monstrous, blood-thirsty, wife-kidnapping werewolf.

And Cozyville, Arizona, a typical American small town that will never be cozy or the same again.

Mike Scott has only two things he can count on: a barroom of tipsy ghosts and his kind-hearted, ever-loving wife Betty. She loves him dearly, will put up with almost anything, and even attempts to understand her husband's predicament, though she can not see or hear his ghostly entourage - but draws the line at being kidnapped by a werewolf.

If Steve Martin and Stephen King collaborated, it would be Darryle Purcell's The Cozyville Werewolf, the first novel in the wildly hilarious new "Ghost Squad" series,

Humorist and political cartoonist Darryle Purcell, author of the Hollywood Cowboy Detectives, writes and illustrates the hilarious high-jinks in his new Ghost Squa

Author: Darryle Purcell
ISBN-13: 9798345652701
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 11/28/2024
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d