black humor

This virtuosic novel, set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle.

Hollywood actor Robert Chase comes to Miami to begin filming a new police drama and decides that he needs to follow blood splatter analyst Dexter Morgan, and when the body of woman is found in a dumpster the Hollywood crew gets excited but Dexter gets a really sinister feeling about this killer.

Andy Warner, a reanimated survivor of a car crash that killed his wife, pieces his life together from his parents' wine cellar while attending zombie support group meetings, and when he meets Rita, an undead girl who cut her own throat, he begins to find his place in society.

The cow apocalypse began in Britain with a heifer that refused to die. Now as cows all over the isle are turning into slavering, man-eating, quadruped zombies, the fate of the nation falls to a slaughterhouse worker, a vegan, and a horribly inept reporter.

Contains eighteen critical essays that explore dark humor in various works, such as Joseph Heller's "Catch 22, " Don DeLillo's "White Noise, " and Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal.".