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  • Bibliography:
    35 Books
  • First Book:
    February 2008
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Book List in Order: 35 titles



  • It is a world where men wake up with laser beams for eyes and wives play sadistic practical jokes. It is a world where body parts randomly fall off and fathers turn into antelopes. In this world, vampires and spontaneous combustions are a constant th...



  • A surreal and horrifying thriller from Andersen Prunty.

    Jack Orange is a twenty-something guy who works at a place called The Tent packing dirt in boxes and shipping them off to exotic, unheard of locales. He thinks about his girlfriend, Gina Blac...



  • After ten years, Hansel Nothing returns to his boyhood home, unable to remember anything that has happened to him since he left. Back home, he stays in Zerostrata, a treehouse in the backyard. The Nothing family is as dysfunctional and depressed as e...



  • Seven-year-old David Glum watches as his grandfather is abducted by a legendary herd of elephants. Twenty years later, David returns to his parents' home to focus on growing a beard, a goal he feels sure he can accomplish. Once the beard reaches a re...



  • Things went wrong for Alvin and April Blue. In a hospital at night, April sits next to Alvin, bandages covering his burned skin, listening to his heart beat on a monitor, and wonders how they ended up here. But she can never imagine the world of insa...



  • The absurd tale of an unlikely soldier forced to fight a war that, quite possibly, does not exist.

    Saul Dressing is a flabby middle-aged librarian who just wants to be left alone to listen to jazz, watch porn, and cultivate his toenails. All of th...




  • A slag is what survivors are calling the slug-like maggots raining from the sky, burrowing inside people, and hollowing out their flesh and their sanity. Slag Attack features four visceral, noir stories about the living, crawling apocalypse. The Deva...



  • The papers call it "The Suicide Virus." The teenagers of Gethsemane, Ohio, are killing themselves at an alarming rate. Steven Wrigley is trying to survive his senior year of high school, still reeling from the death of his mother and adjusting to lif...






  • A pocket guide to the twenty-three most painful things in life, written by the most well-adjusted man in the universe.

    Does it make you sad to be alive?
    Boo-hoo. You're living all wrong.
    My name is Andersen Prunty. I'm happiest while nap...



  • This darkly offbeat novel opens with the narrator, Wallace Black, as the target of the school bully's violence. After suffering a horrendous beating, Black goes home to his equally abusive family. As a punishment for fighting at school, his mother st...



  • This collection of short stories by author Andersen Prunty features "Room 19", a post-apocalyptic nightmare based on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song "From Her to Eternity", appearing for the first time anywhere, and "Market Adjustment", about one m...



  • Seven bleak stories from Andersen Prunty. Contains "The Jackthief", "The Screaming Orchard", "Glowers Point", "Cruel Women with Whiplike Smiles", "The Smoke of Samuel", "Sad Clown, Kentucky", and "Sunruined"....



  • Social networks can be used for a number of things such as finding out what friends and family members are up to, trying to get girls to take their clothes off on camera, raising awareness, and organizing protests, revolutions, and relief efforts. Bu...



  • A short story collection from Andersen Prunty, author of FUCKNESS and HI I'M A SOCIAL DISEASE. Contains "The Summer of Flies", "Deathtripping in New Orleans", "Durning", "Air Cathedral", "The Nowhere Room", "Black Rosita's Man", and "Rayles."...



  • Doug Backus is a normal young man trying to lead a clean Christian life but when mysterious and gruesome deaths begin occurring in his town of Clover, Kentucky, he learns that his life can never be as wholesome as he wants. Along with his heathen fri...



  • Andersen Prunty (FUCKNESS and HI I'M A SOCIAL DISEASE) returns with another collection of horror stories. This volume features: "The Library of Trespass", "Music from the Slaughterhouse", "A Butterfly in Ice", "The Spot", "Laundrymen", "The Warm Hous...



  • Barton King is young, rich, out of control, and planning the most awesome party he's ever thrown. The theme: Mexico Frat Funland. There are going to be khaki cargo shorts, red cups, even a piñata. Maybe sombreros. Team Klaus will be there to DJ the ...



  • Boy meets girl. They fall in love. They move in together and start a new life. They're beautiful and they have new things, expensive things, the best of everything, whatever they want. But that's only the surface. Beneath the surface is something muc...






  • Zombies. Werewolves. Vampires. Mummies. Satanic cults. Unspeakable cosmic horror. Andersen Prunty welcomes you to Twin Springs, Ohio, in his latest collection of horror stories.Contents: The Calming WoodMay to MayCandy HeartRunning From the RosesThe ...




  • Mason Becker is a self-published writer suffering from mild success. After the death of his girlfriend, he quits his job, moves into a tiny apartment in a small town in Ohio, and spends the next several months convincing himself to leave for anything...



  • Bathos! Crippling ennui! Mind-numbing drudgery!

     

    Brad Renfield is a white, middle-aged, lower middle class, Midwestern man stuck in Gethsemane, Ohio. Most of his friends have either died or moved away and his one remaining friend is ...



  • This collection of short stories by author Andersen Prunty features "Room 19", a post-apocalyptic nightmare based on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' song "From Her to Eternity", appearing for the first time anywhere, and "Market Adjustment", about one m...



  • A short story collection from Andersen Prunty, author of FUCKNESS and HI I'M A SOCIAL DISEASE. Contains "The Summer of Flies", "Deathtripping in New Orleans", "Durning", "Air Cathedral", "The Nowhere Room", "Black Rosita's Man", and "Rayles."...



  • This darkly offbeat novel opens with the narrator, Wallace Black, as the target of the school bully’s violence. After suffering a horrendous beating, Black goes home to his equally abusive family. As a punishment for fighting at school, his mother ...



  • Ryan Noman is stuck in a house on a dead end street in a dying city, a loveless relationship, and a job where the owner challenges his employees to fights in the parking lot. He also has a mystery rash. When Ryan’s best friend, Gus, convinces him t...



  • When three friends receive a startlingly incoherent invitation to a “Reeyoonyun” they seize upon it to break up the monotony of their middle-aged lives. The host, one of their old friends, seems battered and out of it. The maid acts like a weird ...



  • Clint is a laughable stalker who lives in a hoard with his decaying mother. Stella is his current fascination, but Clint has no idea what kind of woman Stella is. She's playing a lifelong game and only she knows the rules. Now she's made a wrong move...






  • A retired man loses his wife to cancer and his daughter to a mysterious accident. He mostly lives alone, occasionally taking care of his grandson. When he sees a black van drive over a young woman before disappearing into the dark of night, he loses ...



  • From Dust Bowl freakshows to modern day existential horror, Deathtripping collects thirty-five short stories written over a twenty-year period. Disturbing, provoking, surreal, absurd, and bitingly morbid, these stories are invitations to a world that...



  • Libbie Milligan is stuck. She works a dead-end job at a motel, tends to her agoraphobic mother, and tries not to think about her sister's murder from sixteen years ago. When a mysterious woman shows up to work at the motel, she befriends Libbie and t...



  • Who will become enlightened and what will be left of them? Scott Champion knows the meaning of life. And his life is great. He has everything a guy like him could want: a beautiful wife, a precocious daughter, a nice house in the perfect locatio...



  • In the spirit of the shot-on-video horror of the 80s, Meat Photo is a transgressive, absurd horror comedy and the love child of Andersen Prunty and C.V. Hunt. Meat photos are the hottest trend. Everyone has one or is willing to do anything to get one...



  • A private detective joins an insane search for a missing person who's looked upon with something like spiritual awe. A young woman is taken hostage in a deranged plot by a very severe man. Two guys named Cobra and Rambo chug gasoline and help their f...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Andersen Prunty has published 35 books.

Andersen Prunty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Corpse Mountain, was published in December 2024.

The first book by Andersen Prunty, The Overwhelming Urge, was published in February 2008.

No. Andersen Prunty does not write books in series.