Dead Funny: Encore
More Horror Stories by Comedians
Published on 1. October 2016
224 pages
978-1-78463-052-2 (ISBN)
Description
What happens when mirth turns to murder? When the screams are not from joy, but flesh-ripping pain? Dead Funny: Encore is the second helping of monstrous tales from the brightest lights in UK comedy.
Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this second exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror, the dark follow up to 2014's smash hit debut, Dead Funny.
Featuring stories by: James Acaster, Clare Ferguson Walker, Toby Hadoke, Natalie Haynes, Rufus Hound, Robin Ince, Elis James, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Alice Lowe, Jason Manford, Alan Moore, Andrew O'Neill, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, John Robertson and Isy Suttie.
Award winners Robin Ince and Johnny Mains team up for this second exploration of the relationship between comedy and horror, the dark follow up to 2014's smash hit debut, Dead Funny.
Featuring stories by: James Acaster, Clare Ferguson Walker, Toby Hadoke, Natalie Haynes, Rufus Hound, Robin Ince, Elis James, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Alice Lowe, Jason Manford, Alan Moore, Andrew O'Neill, Kiri Pritchard-McLean, John Robertson and Isy Suttie.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Not illustrated
File size
1,08 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78463-052-2 (9781784630522)
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Persons
Robin Ince is a multi-award-winning comedian and author. His book Robin Ince's Bad Book Club was based on his tour Bad Book Club. More recently he has toured Happiness Through Science, The Importance of Being Interested and is currently touring Robin Ince Is In And Out Of His Mind and Blooming Buzzing Confusion.
Award winning editor, author and horror historian. Has written for SFX Magazine, Illustrators Quarterly and The Paperback Fanatic. Project editor to Pan Macmillan's 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories. Co-editing Dead Funny with multi-award winning comedian Robin Ince. Has written introduction to Stephen King's 30th Anniversary edition of Thinner. Author of two short story collections and editor of five horror anthologies.
Rufus Hound is currently an actor. He is not currently a panel show turn, a TV presenter, a stand-up comedian or proud of himself.
Stewart Lee is a comedian, writer and director. In the 90s he worked with Richard Herring and has since gone on to write Jerry Springer: The Opera which found itself in the centre of a media meltdown (although the critics loved it). He has written five novels and a new series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle has been commissioned for 2015.
Award winning editor, author and horror historian. Has written for SFX Magazine, Illustrators Quarterly and The Paperback Fanatic. Project editor to Pan Macmillan's 2010 re-issue of The Pan Book of Horror Stories. Co-editing Dead Funny with multi-award winning comedian Robin Ince. Has written introduction to Stephen King's 30th Anniversary edition of Thinner. Author of two short story collections and editor of five horror anthologies.
Rufus Hound is currently an actor. He is not currently a panel show turn, a TV presenter, a stand-up comedian or proud of himself.
Stewart Lee is a comedian, writer and director. In the 90s he worked with Richard Herring and has since gone on to write Jerry Springer: The Opera which found itself in the centre of a media meltdown (although the critics loved it). He has written five novels and a new series of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle has been commissioned for 2015.
Content
- Intro
- Robin Ince
- Introduction
- Johnny Mains
- Another Introduction
- Rufus Hound
- Date Night
- Isy Suttie
- Under My Skin
- Alice Lowe
- Carnival
- Andrew O'Neill
- The Vault
- Kiri Pritchard-McLean
- The Man Made of Worms
- James Acaster
- To Do
- Robin Ince
- Hide and Seek
- Toby Hadoke
- Cunning
- Josie Long
- A Ghost Story
- Jason Manford
- Jessica's Friend
- Clare Ferguson Walker
- Daddy's Girl
- John Robertson
- Harry
- Natalie Haynes
- The Basement Conversion
- Elis James
- Above and Beyond
- Stewart Lee
- Test Pressing
- Alan Moore
- Cold Reading
- Alice Lowe
- Paedo
- Who's Who
- Acknowledgements
