Praise for Carnivorous Lunar Activities
“Booth’s book is a breakthrough, from the conceit to the delivery. It’s funny but mean, smart but smartass, and it just might be your favorite werewolf story in the world.
Carnivorous Lunar Activities starts out like a play, Grand Guignol, a couple of very compelling characters locked in a helluva conversation, before transforming into a blood-bright explosion of horror joy. Fucked up love, fucked up friendship, and how maybe you shouldn’t live past the best night of your life. Oh, how I loved this book.”
—Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box
“What I like about Max’s point of view is when he looks at something familiar - something you or I might have seen dozens of times and not give a second thought to - he comes up with a whole new way of seeing it, in the process causing you to reconsider your own perspective. That fresh pair of eyes is on grand display in Carnivorous Lunar Activities.”
—Phil Nobile Jr., Editor-in-Chief of FANGORIA
“This book is a fucking blood-thirsty joy and if it’s not made into a movie in the next couple of years, I’ll eat my hat. Luckily, I don’t own any hats, but you get the idea. It’s about two friends. One happens to be chained to an anchor in his own basement – yes, an anchor – and he’s a werewolf. The other guy has got a whole other set of problems. There’s another Max walking around out there with the last name, but Max Booth is the literary inheritor of John Landis’s mantle and Carnivorous Lunar Activities could be the sequel to the comic-tragedy of An American Werewolf in London. This werewolf romp is a howling good time. (Sorry, couldn’t help myself.)”
—John Hornor Jacobs, author of A Lush and Seething Hell
“Carnivorous Lunar Activities is laugh-out-loud funny with dialogue that’ll make even the most seasoned writers jealous. Joe R. Lansdale meets An American Werewolf in London with a splash of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games. Carnivorous Lunar Activities is a must for all horror fans.”
—Michael David Wilson, This is Horror Founder
“Fun and ridiculously propulsive, a chatty, earthy, lived-in horror for fans of Landis and Lansdale.”
—Meredith Borders, Managing Editor of FANGORIA
Other Books Available from Max Booth III
Toxicity
The Mind is a Razorblade
How to Successfully Kidnap Strangers
The Nightly Disease
Carnivorous Lunar Activities
Copyright © 2019 Max Booth III
ISBN 9781946487131 (paperback)
ISBN 9781946487148 (e-book)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018959028
Published by Fangoria
www.fangoria.com
Dallas, Texas
Cover Illustration by ANDY SCIAZKO
Design & Layout ASHLEY DETMERING
Copyeditors PRESTON FASSEL and FRANCIE CRAWFORD
Distributor CONSORTIUM BOOK SALES & DISTRIBUTION
Associate Publisher JESSICA SAFAVIMEHR
Producer & Publisher DALLAS SONNIER
Author MAX BOOTH III
First Edition February 2019
Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to anyone who
would be willing to kill me.
“Everything makes sense if you
look at it long enough.”
—Stephen Graham Jones, Mongrels
“Have you ever tried talking to a corpse?
It’s boring!”
—Jack, An American Werewolf in London
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