Neil Kleid kicks off the spooky season with a new HORROR title
Award-Winning Graphic novelist Neil Kleid (Ninety Candles, Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt, The Phoenix Chase) is set to drop his newest title from Blackstone Publishing, called Return to the Motherfreaking Fun Factory.
Return to the Motherfreaking Fun Factory will serve as Kleid's first dive into an original horror novella, and reviewers are already describing it as demented and twisted. Preorders are currently live on Bookshop until the end of tonight, and best of all, you can get a discount for ordering a Paperback or a Hardcover!
Writer: Neil Kleid
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Genre: Horror
Page Count: 272
Description: Ten years ago, five children were lured into the dark machinations of a twisted, whimsical toymaker, forced to compete for a grand prize--all the toys they could ever dream of--and, as happened, their lives.
Today four of those kids--now morally ambiguous young adults--seek revenge on the insane man who terrorized them, and once again find themselves trapped inside his factory of horrors, all while attempting to save the fifth member of their group, who "won" the contest ... but was left behind.
This book, my first original (non-licensed) prose novella, is a gripping and creepy mash-up of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and Stephen King’s “IT.” The book is an idea I’ve been nursing along for years, ever since I mentioned it seven years ago on social media. Realizing there was more opportunity there than just another random post, I spent a lot of time thinking about the characters, morals, and DNA of Roald Dahl’s book —and subsequent film adaptations — and how they might easily lend themselves to a very unique, very entertaining revenge story which goes off the rails super quickly, in a most horrible, terrifying manner. Had a blast conceiving and writing this one, am thrilled that Blackstone Publishing is putting it out into the world, and I hope folks will check it out!” - Neil Kleid
Preorder Return To The Motherfreaking Fun Factory here
About Neil Kleid
Xeric-Award-winning graphic novelist Neil Kleid authored Ninety Candles, a graphic novella about life, death, legacy, and comics, as well as the graphic novels Brownsville and The Big Kahn. He has written for nearly every comic book publisher in the industry, adapted Jack London's Call of the Wild into a sequential for Penguin Books, did the opposite for Marvel Comics' seminal Spider-Man storyline "Kraven's Last Hunt", and is collaborating on the digital creator-owned series Kings and Canvas, with artists Jake Allen and Frank Reynoso for Monkeybrain Comics. By day, Neil is the Art Director for the Topps Company's digital suite of trading card apps. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and four kids, where he roots for the Tigers, grills like a king, and writes like a champ.
You can find Neil on Bluesky and Instagram.
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