Poker Face meets Contagion in this next novel by USA Today bestselling author and beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle.
After a global disaster prompts thousands of comically unlikely deaths, a bisexual statistics professor-who has convinced herself she might not exist-and an ethically dubious government agent must travel to Las Vegas to unravel the connection between deadly bouts of absurdity and a supernaturally lucky casino.
Also by Chuck Tingle:
Camp Damascus
Bury Your Gays
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. CHUCK TINGLE is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays. Camp Damascus was a finalist for the Bram Stoker and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award. Chuck is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah and now lives in Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.
Praise for Bury Your Gays
AN INSTANT USA TODAY AND INDIE BESTSELLER
An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick • One of the Best Books of Summer 2024 by Esquire, Paste, HuffPost, and Publishers Weekly!
"Fast-paced and brimming with queer representation, it brings fictional monsters to life while exploring the real-life evils of homophobia. This book is Tingle's declaration: Love is real, and so are monsters."
-Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times
"Tingle cements his place in horror with this gory romp...[his] vivid, visceral storytelling combines with prescient insight into the corporate dynamics that rule mainstream media. The result is smart, subtle, and a bloody good time." -Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW)
"Tingle burst onto the traditional publishing scene with one of the best books of 2023 (Camp Damascus), but his follow-up is even better ... taking readers on a highly entertaining, fast-paced ride, filled with thought-provoking satire, original monsters, and some of the most realistic characters they will encounter on any page, all to prove that love is real and horror itself is, at its core, a celebration of life."
-Booklist (STARRED review)
"Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gays brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts. A profoundly smart and emotionally resonant novel that is sprinkled with cinema magic and a brutal Hollywood reckoning." -RACHEL HARRISON, national bestselling author of Black Sheep
"RIP gay clichés! Wickedly funny and hella entertaining, this takes great pride in digging up Hollywood's skeletons and gleefully pounding them to dust. I loved every eerie, nostalgic, blood-spattered, rainbow-flag-waving page." -JOSH WINNING, author of Burn the Negative and Heads Will Roll
"This triumph of a book effortlessly and cleverly upends cliche. One of the best novels ever about LA, the film industry, and horror movies, it delivers all the fandom, fear, and feels, and then some. Only Chuck Tingle can tell a story as masterfully as this, and he once again proves that love is so real." -CJ LEEDE, author of Maeve Fly
"Gory and goosebump-inducing horror." -HUFFPOST
"Bury Your Gays is a horror of epic proportions." -Reactor
"Bury Your Gays is Tingle's best work yet. It deserves to be the literary equivalent of a massive summer blockbuster.... If you were on the picket lines last year, if original stories are important to you, if you too believe that love is real(!), then this one is for you-even if you don't think you like horror, you're gonna devour this." -Drew Broussard, LIT HUB
"Bury Your Gays, along with last year's Camp Damascus, cements Tingle's place as one of the best new novelists around, horror
