AwShucks SuspenseStories - Southern Fried Homicide Author:Michael H. Price, Jim Marrs, Bill Alger, George E. Turner, Adrian Martinez, Mark David Dietz, Dale Taylor, Todd Camp, Cat Marrs This amazing 80-pg collection rounds up eleven yarns spanning series Michael H. Price's more than thirty years as a storyteller in the Southern Gothic tradition, running the gamut from hair-raising folk tales and true-crime and war yarns, to parody and satire to the random uneasy mingling of horror and humor. Showcasing such featured writers as ... more »Jim Marrs (author of Crossfire: The Plot That Killed JFK and Alien Agenda), whose story, "It Takes A Child To Raze A Village", boasts the debut of his daughter, illustrator Cat Marrs. Other talents represented include Hanna-Barbera artist Bill Alger, whose rambunctious cartooning on a centerpiece story, "The Great Wazoo Gets His Mojo Workin", drawn from Deep Southern folklore, also yields the cover artwork; Mark Dietz's "Memories and Lies", an embittered reflection on war from a ground-zero vantage; New York gallery painter Adrian Martinez, in a haunting encore from the original Southern-Fried Homicide, the harrowing "Sunk Rats", as adapted by Price from the artist's memoirs; the late George E. Turner, in a continuation of his "Mummy's Family Album" collection of bizarre vignettes; pioneering Texas political cartoonist Jack Patton; and modern-day newspaper designer-illustrators Dale Taylor and Todd Camp. The stories include both hitherto unseen pieces, developed expressly for the Southern-Fried Homicide series, and strategic resurrections from books long out of print. Among the latter are Price and Camp's "Twin Freaks", a delightfully demented homage to the old Kurtzman-edited MAD Comics; and Price's posthumous collaboration with Jack Patton on the impolite, "A True Life Story", which first saw publication in Heavy Metal magazine. The customary gratuitous inclusion of a story featuring Price's redneck-lawman character, Constable Moe Lester, receives a definite interpretation from Dale Taylor, an artist who was scarcely more than an infant back when the earliest Moe Lester comic strips began appearing around 1970-71.« less