the thing – Word Horde https://wordhorde.com Why follow the herd? Join the Horde! Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:14:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 46840551 Now Available: An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen https://wordhorde.com/now-available-an-augmented-fourth-by-tony-mcmillen/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 20:14:01 +0000 http://wordhorde.com/?p=2613 Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth dropped on Tuesday, so if you’re looking to rock ‘n’ roll all night long this weekend, we’ve got you covered. Here are just a few of the reviews An Augmented Fourth has received so far:

Fantasy Literature‘s Marion Deeds says, “Tony McMillen’s An Augmented Fourth (2017) is heavy metal rock and roll horror at its wailing-guitar best. Set in 1980, the point of transition from heavy metal to punk, An Augmented Fourth blends inter-dimensional eldritch horror, David-Cronenberg-movie grotesquerie, and psychedelia in a thrash-metal twenty-minute-guitar-solo of a story.”

LitReactor‘s Gabino Iglesias says, “This is a wildly entertaining novel that is both a hilarious deconstruction and a tender love letter to rock and roll. McMillen has a knack for dialogue and that helps the action and the story move forward at breackneck speed. […] If you think you’d dig watching a psychedelia-infused version of The Thing while blasting awesome tunes and having a great acid trip, then you need to pick this one up.”

An Augmented Fourth by Tony McMillen

“It would take a real virtuoso to properly blend The Thing, The Mist, Black Sabbath, and Bowie into one rollicking, comical cosmic horror tribute to early metal and the dark beyond. Lucky for us, Tony McMillen has the chops to make this mutant beast fly on blessed black wings. An Augmented Fourth is a strange, sludgy, progged-out blast!” –Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack City and Entropy in Bloom

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]]> 2613 Preorder An Augmented Fourth, by Tony McMillen https://wordhorde.com/preorder-an-augmented-fourth-by-tony-mcmillen/ Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:53:41 +0000 http://wordhorde.com/?p=2546 Are you ready to rock? We’ve got just the right book for you. Dropping June 27, and available to preorder now is Tony McMillen’s novel An Augmented Fourth, which has been called “This Is Spinal Tap meets The Thing meets From Beyond.” We know you’re going to dig it.

An Augmented Fourth by Tony McMillen

Codger Burton, bassist and lyricist for Frivolous Black, the heaviest heavy metal band to ever come out of the UK, awakens to find his hotel snowed in, his band mates evacuated, and monsters roaming the hotel. Looks like Codger picked the wrong week to quit using cocaine. From the twisted mind of Tony McMillen comes the hilarious rock and roll horror novel An Augmented Fourth, a novel of The Lord of Low End.

“It would take a real virtuoso to properly blend The Thing, The Mist, Black Sabbath, and Bowie into one rollicking, comical cosmic horror tribute to early metal and the dark beyond. Lucky for us, Tony McMillen has the chops to make this mutant beast fly on blessed black wings. An Augmented Fourth is a strange, sludgy, progged-out blast!” –Jeremy Robert Johnson, author of Skullcrack City and Entropy in Bloom

Cover art by Alan M. Clark.

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