Book Synopsis
Somewhere between the Roswell crash and your grandmother's suspicion that the government isn't telling you everything, there's a samovar-shaped spacecraft drifting low over the Florida swamps — and it's about to change everything.
Weird Menace Adventure Tales collects the pulp-soaked, genre-defying chronicles of WM — Galactic Representative to Earth, High Adjudicator of the Galactic Temple of Scientonomy, insectoid huckster, would-be messiah, and reluctant witness to seven decades of humanity at its strangest. From a hardboiled Gold Medal crime writer who stumbles onto the truth behind the skunk ape legend, to a wrestling league built from hybrid DNA and desperate dignity, to a Pacific island cargo cult that mistakes platform shoes for prophecy — this anthology drags cosmic horror, cryptozoology, con-artist theology, and lucha libre into the same sweat-stained tent and dares you to look away.
Expect: flying saucers shaped like teapots. A wrestling federation staffed by cryptid champions fighting for personhood in the squared circle. A Temple board meeting that goes sideways over beanie weenies and a winery with an unfortunate name. Space-Busters, skunk ape liberation, and a laserrang that's never once hit what it was aimed at.
It's Weird Tales with a Florida driver's license and a grudge. It's the Nephilim, if the Nephilim had agents. It's proof that the line between religious con and cosmic truth is thinner — and funnier, and sadder — than anybody wants to admit.
Grab your copy. WM insists.
About The Author
Tony Arnold is the cryptonym under which Vernacular Ontologist and Tiki Misanthropologist Dr. Crabbe Rangoon publishes his creative fiction. Serving on renowned explorer Horst von Hesselbrut's last expedition, his subsequent endeavors included procurement journeys into Asia, the South Pacific and The Dark Continent. Distinguished as the Praetor Imprimitor of the Ordinis Orientalium Nasi Templum, he serves as the Intergalactic Attache for the Temple of Scientonomy. He is formally attached to the Ruling Council of The Spear of the Just and is Chancellor of the Ministry of Truth. He holds the Regent Chair of the Knights of the Eightfold Clover, and is an internet influencer. He's a Lifetime Honorary Member of the Slack Key Recessionists, and is also a member of the Dollar Shave Club. Dr. Rangoon resides in a stilt home above the waters near Candor-on-Asperger, where he writes and edits for the White Devil Press, and serves as a consultant to the National Department of Identification in Countercrypto Disinfotainment.