“Pete Anders is a lonely man. An angry man. A man who has reached the end of his patience and sanity, and a man who has chosen Halloween as the night he will get his revenge. What Pete doesn’t see, though, are the strings that are leading him towards a violent end where he can no longer be a potential threat to the people who have set him along his dark path. Far beyond all of this, though, is a greater tale, the story of the beginning and the end of all things. The story of the unmaking of existence. And a war that Pete Anders will soon become a player in. And Pete, simple, angry old Pete Anders is far more powerful than anyone could ever have bargained for, and far more dangerous as well, and he’ll be damned if he misses out on the end of the world, and he may be damned if he chooses to play a part in it. Hillbillies? Zombies? Gods? Destroyers? The First Children of Eden? Heaven? Hell? Mini-malls? Laughs? Scares? Yup.”
Meet my magnum opus.
Begun as a wee short story about a crazed man with a pumpkin on his head, and having first appeared in the magazine a friend and I put out in 1994, this is the grand daddy all my books. It grew from that short story and refused to stop growing until it was a full-fledged novel, and our anti-hero saw his task through to the end.
The book is equal parts strange and ridiculous, and walks the line as well as a drunk at midnight. It’s strange, epic, and the main character is one you won’t soon forget. Nor did his town of Munsonville, as his shadow looms over many stories set in and around that region.
What I love about the book is that it captures so many of my loves and so much of my strange personality. It’s heartfelt, it’s serious, it’s silly, it’s outrageous, and it does its darnedest to say something.
I love the book dearly, and think you will too.
It’s definitely like nothing you’ve read before.
The Spooky World of Chris Ringler 