~Post by Steven
Does your skin recoil from the dread crispness that has invaded the atmosphere this Autumn? Can you feel the intermittent raindrops mocking your petty existence? Has the stinking crush of humanity in Zilker Park sent you fleeing in a blind panic to the nearest bookstore for a calming tincture of familiarity? As jack-o-lanterns materialize this month to pass judgment over the tiny lives of those ignorant souls that walk blindly past, hold dear the infernal knowledge that THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY Book Club is manifesting its dark will this Tuesday October 16th in the BookPeople cafe at 8:00 p.m., where, in between orchestrations of mankind’s downfall, we will discuss Glen Duncan’s existential nightmare, The Last Werewolf.
Dueling occult bureaucracies are competing to plot the fate of Jake Marlowe – aristocrat, philanthropist, bi-centenarian, werewolf – and all our brooding antihero wants is out. As the final remaining werewolf on the planet, his story has run its course, and the time has come to take a bow. The narrative of life, however, complicates itself endlessly, and Jake is damned with a sudden and unexpected burden in the form of a reason to continue living. Wolfmen, vampires, hunters thereof, closeted skeletons, and personal demons haunt the pages of The Last Werewolf, and the plot grows ever thicker and more self-referential as the moon waxes fuller.
Join us this Boo!-sday in the BookPeople cafe at 8:00 p.m. to talk horror and horror philosophy as the omniscient barista silently watches all. THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY meets on the third Tuesday of every month to chatter like cenobites about literary spookiness (to be honest, we always end up talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer). We have cultivated a frightening, friendly faction of freaks, and we’re always on the lookout to recruit more. Come one, come all to this blasphemous bacchanal! Just remember that this Halloween season, every single apple that THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY devours will have a razorblade in it.
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