by Keith Graves
When Josephine and her parents move to Awkward Falls and she explores the crumbling old mansion next door, she finds a parentless boy living there, Thaddeus. He claims to be the grandson of the late Celcius Hibble, a famous local scientist. Thaddeus eats mainly chocolate and his companions include a robot butler and a cat that he’s raised from the dead. All very interesting, but relatively harmless—until Fetid Stenchley, a hunchbacked cannibal imprisoned in the Asylum for the Dangerously Insane, escapes. He’s been locked up for murdering Hibble, who was his mentor, and he is terrifying and unpredictable from page 1. He’s got an insatiable taste for human flesh, and a strong desire to return to the scene of his most heinous crime, the mansion Thaddeus calls home. Crazy surprises abound, and every few chapters a jaw-dropping new twist emerges. You name it, it’s in here: cloning, immortality, even a substantial nod to Frankenstein. A little scary, a little funny, and awfully suspenseful, this strange, campy tale will be a hit with fans of Greg Taylor’s Killer Pizza. Purposefully spare black and white sketches by the author add to the book’s frenetic feel. Deliciously creepy.
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