Horror/comedy master Jeff Strand returns with a collection of 26 gleefully macabre tales! 

A cheerful snack mascot who snaps under the pressure. The nightmarish effects of the most depressing holiday song of all time. A virtual-reality environment that allows you to enact your most depraved fantasies...sort of. Giant mutant cockroaches doing battle with zombies in the Old West. An unnerving discovery in the Book of Revelations. The true secret of silent comedian Buster Keaton's success. Plus a Halloween curse, a lot of psychopaths, and much more! 

Often hilarious, frequently gruesome, and sometimes just flat-out wrong to the point where laughing at them presents a moral quandary, Candy Coated Madness is Strand at his demented best! 

Table of contents: 

• "Virtual Reality Kill Zone"
• "Good Deeds"
• "Captain Pistachio's Charming Rampage"
• "The Last Thing You Want to Be"
• "Lab Experiment Turf War"
• "No Tomato"
• "Clyde the Necrophile"
• "Don't Make Fun of the Haunted House"
• "Ivan's Night Out"
• "Pointy Canes"
• "Giant Mutant Cockroaches in the Old West vs. Zombies"
• "Outpouring"
• "Smashing Jacks"
• "Faerie"
• "Green Suits"
• "The Fraud"
• "Hostile"
• "The Great Stone Face vs. the Gargoyles"
• "Parody"
• "Awakening"
• "Dismemberment Fraud"
• "Beware! The! Beverage!"
• "Rotten Eggs"
• "Gave Up the Ghost"
• "December Birthday"
• "My Werewolf Neighbor"

Plus an introduction and story notes!