Coming Soon - Haunted Hamburger House by Frank J. Edler

 

Get ready for eerie chills and unworldly thrills from D&T Publications, HAUNTED HAMBURGER HOUSE by Frank J. Edler! This wild and wacky paranormal adventure gets an early drop on Godless.com Thursday, October 12th before its official release on Amazon Kindle and Paperback on Thursday, October 26th. The book will also be available to purchase personalized and direct at frankedler.com soon thereafter.

What's it all about? In the heart of the New Mexican desert, lost along old HWY 66 sits a forgotten hamburger joint of a bygone era. A young real estate agent is trying to sell the property before the unforgiving sands claim the building, but within its withering walls, eerie energy is creeping about, chasing away would-be buyers! Enter the Not Normal Investigators, a rag-tag team of paranormal sleuths dispatched to uncover the source of this disturbing energy for their reality tv show. The answers they find are out of this world.

This story was not only inspired by the plethora of ghost hunter and paranormal investigation shows on the Discover, History and Travel cable networks but also, independent paranormal investigators doing their thing without fancy production budgets on YouTube and other streaming platforms. Love or hate these types of shows, you know you can turn away from them. Are ghosts real? Is it all simply some Hollywood magic? Or, is it ...something else? HAUNTED HAMBURGER HOUSE answers all those questions and more.

"If you love or hate ghost hunter shows, Frank Edler's HAUNTED HAMBURGER HOUSE is the book you didn't know you've been waiting for." -Jay Wilburn, author of CURSE OF THE RATMAN

HAUNTED HAMBURGER HOUSE was originally released as an experimental NFTbook in October of 2022. It can still be purchased in that ground breaking format on OpenSea. The NFTbook comes with true ebook ownership, dynamic animated book art and unabridged audiobook edition of HAUNTED HAMBURGER HOUSE, narrated by Ron Gabaldon.

Just in time for spooky season, grab your copy of HAUNTED HAMBURGER HOUSE, the outrageous haunted house story that takes place in an abandoned burger join in the middle of the New Mexican desert. 

You Love Horror Comedies, You Just Don't Realize It (Saturday the 14th)

 

Don't scoff. You love horror comedies. You do, admit it. Maybe you don't even realize it. Perhaps you don't recognize a horror comedy when you see one. It could be that you haven't found the right fit for your tastes. Could it be you're afraid you might lose your horror cred if you laughed at the macabre. I'm here to tell you, you can admit it: Horror Comedy is great!

Of course dark, brooding, eerie, moody horror is your thing. Nobody is going to take that from you. No need to point your chin up at the occasional funny movie that plays in your sandbox. They can co-exist in blood-soaked harmony. No harm, no foul. Take a break. Have a laugh and then get back to all the brooding and bludgeoning. That's what life is all about.

You already like at least one horror comedy flick. I guarantee it. Almost certainly you've enjoyed Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, a movie that has the best time having fun with all the tropes you love. Then there's What We Do In The Shadows, pairing classic horror movie monsters with the reality television format. There are the mainstream ones that you might not even realize qualify as horror comedy like Gremlins, Ghostbusters and Beetlejuice. The Addams Family and The Munsters, too! Perhaps the modern granddaddy of the horror comedy movies, Shaun of the Dead? Its an out and out lampoon of the tried and true zombie horror movie we've been watching since Romero set the ghouls out to get Barbara.

Speaking of granddaddies, have you heard of one of my favorite horror comedies of all time? Saturday the 14th. It was released way back in 1981 starring Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss and features a young (and still balding) Jeffrey Tambor along with the likes of Stacy Keach and Michael Berryman to name a few.

Saturday the 14th is a spoof of sorts. But, not on the movie named for the day before this flick. This is more of a fun homage to classic Hollywood horror monsters. A typical suburbanite family inherits their dead uncle's house. The house contains an evil book of magic unbeknownst to the family but totally beknownst to the vampire (Tambor) who want to run the family off and get his hands on the book himself. Of course, the son find the book before Dracula. When he opens it up and starts reading the pages inside he sets loose a panteon of movie monsters on the unsuspecting family (and on Dracula Tambor). There's a werewolf and a mummy. There's a creature of a dark lagoon (or in this case, a bathtub.) There's even an exterminator named, you guessed it, Van Helsing, who's hired to get rid of the bats in the attic.

Saturday the 14th shows its age. But, its not a movie that needs its good looks to prevail. This is a movie about having fun with movie monsters. When I first watched this as a kid, there were parts that scared the bejesus out of me but it was the laughs that kept me glued to the TV and got me through it. This is the movie that made me love horror. And yes, its a horror comedy that made me love horror. See, horror comedy is horror.

You're not going to discover this as a kid. But you should still check it out. As of the the release of this blog, you can find Saturday the 14th streaming free on Tubi, Peacock, Roku Channel and Amazon Prime Video. There's no excuse not to check it out.

And if you find you love horror comedy like I do, why not check out my horror comedy books, inspired by movies like Saturday the 14th. You can find them on Amazon, Kindle & Kindle Unlimited. Or you can buy signed paperback copies direct through my web site at frankedler.com. Use the coupon code: BUY3 at checkout to get any three books for $30.