black humor (literature)

Albert Lippincott has spent the last thirty years working for the Nestor, New York, post office as a letter carrier, but when one of his customers dies and Albert discovers he was holding the letter that might have saved him, his precarious existence begins to crumble.

Serial killer, Jane Steele, discovers that her hateful aunt has died and that her childhood home has a new master, Mr. Charles Thornfield, who seeks a governess for the nine-year-old ward in his care. Jane takes the position incognito and learns that Highgate House is full of strange new residents. As Jane catches glimpses of Mr. Thornfield's violent history and falls in love with him, she must learn if she can completely possess him without revealing her own dark past.

Dave, John, and Amy realize something weird is going on, something "They" don't want anyone to know, when investigating a case of a shape-shifting interdimensional child predator.

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen.

When four UC Berkeley students put on a dramatic protest at an annual reenactment of a Civil War battle, they set off a chain of events that revel deep divides of class, race, and politics within their community.

When a deadly illness strikes society, nineteen-year-old Joy Jones discovers that she is immune, and sets off on a quest through a disease-ravaged American countryside to locate her birth mother, coming to terms with the dark memories of her past in the process.

Dutch couple Wim and Marie agree to hide a Jew named Nico during the Nazi occupation, but when he dies of pneumonia, they must find a way to dispose of his body before the Nazis discover what they have done.

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.

Jack Molloy finds himself adrift in a sea of adversity after he inherits half of the New York Hawks and gets a crash course in the workings of professional football.