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Hi, mein Name ist Rüdiger und ich bin ein Zombie! Wie es dazu kam? Das erzähle ich in diesem Hörbuch. Eine humorvolle Zombieserie über das Sterben, das Leben und ganz viel dazwischen.

Humoristisch, depressiv, altbacken und technikgeil - Filip Galvian setzt einen Kontrapunkt zu der von Mittelmäßigkeit geprägten Gegenwart! Diese Folge handelt vom vermasselten Studium. Der Professor der Entwurfsklasse zermürbt den armen Studenten; dazu fällt ihm die Assistentin auch noch in den Rücken und überhaupt - ist der sachte fallende Schnee nicht viel schöner als diese verschmierten Leinwände der Kunststudenten?

Witty and realistically sarcastic; full of self-redemption and the dark, cosmic inner-workings of life and death. Comically sharp yet lighthearted, Death Dresses Poorly is the bittersweet tale of a young man’s journey through the discarded baggage of his childhood.

If stealing a half million dollars from the Mafia is a bad idea, then using the money to pay off a homicidal Russian loan shark is an insane idea. Elliot Becker realizes this a little too late as his well-intentioned South Florida real estate scam starts to fall to pieces. He needs a Plan B - and he needs it now - because when Ponzi schemes fail, they tend to fail fast. Complicating matters is Logan Treverrow, an aspiring sculptor and newly-returned veteran from Afghanistan trying to figure out who took out a $200,000 loan in his soon-to-be-ex-wife’s name.

This is a story about a man, his son, and their three-day mission to cheat death. Sometimes funny, often sardonic, with shifting perspectives and unpunctuated dialogue, Nearly Dead in North Dakota is a fast and loose journey through history, science, religion, pop culture, and a closer examination of the kind of world we live in but never get enough time to really think about.

Whitt hat kein Bock zu sterben. Vor allem nicht mehrmals. Doch genau das erwartet ihn beim "Immortal Contest": dort soll er sich an seinem unsterblichen Tag live umbringen lassen. Auch wenn er am Tag der Show über Superkräfte verfügt - sein Leben würde er trotzdem nicht aufs Spiel setzen. Aber Whitt hat keine Wahl: Dem Sieger des Immortal Contests winken eine Million Dollar Preisgeld, weshalb sein Bruder ihn an die Show verkauft hat - und es ist nicht so einfach, sich gegen eine Entführung zu wehren, wenn man im Rollstuhl sitzt.

Sir Lanka does not want to be born. It just seems like so much stress. Go to school. Get good grades. Find a job. Too much stress. So he decides to stay in the womb. And stays in there for 32 years. Until his mom eventually has enough of him. She gets an abortion. But he survives. Or not - I don't want to spoil too much. But he wakes up in the dumpster behind the clinic and has no idea what to do.

After the hurricane, Reggie and Betsy discover a portion of their backyard has begun to sink. Fearing the ground will open up and swallow their house sooner rather than later Reggie calls the city to come fix it, but pushback from the local Sheriff slows the process down by a day. Come nightfall the power goes out, the sinkhole opens, and a busload of ghoulish children crawl to the surface for their first meal in 52 years.

A dark bizarro tale, a disturbing peek into the world of gainers and feeders; grotesquely obese individuals and the people who facilitate their growth for the lascivious pleasure of both parties. Join our heroine in a fantastical journey to discover the unnerving and grotesque secrets which lay behind the Feeder's nefarious schemes....

A collection of essays and short stories that will burn into your mind.

The Termination Clause is a comedy about the nature of art, success, and ambition. A young writer of promise is given an advance of sorts to finish his first novel free from outside pressures. An eccentric app millionaire who knew him in high school wants to "invest in the arts", though Randolph J. Simper's motives become increasingly mysterious as a series of bizarre developments, culminating in the appearance of an assassin, sabotage protagonist Clay Turner.

Part 1/KOMÖDIE INFERNALE: Einmal im Jahr lädt der Allmächtige zum Kolloquium der Anderswelt. Drei Gestalten mischen sich unter die geladenen Gäste. Mister Salazar, die Blutgräfin Báthory und ein kleiner Mann namens Adi. Mit Hilfe des Computergenies Steve will der selbsternannte Führer erneut die Macht ergreifen. Wenn sein Plan gelingt, wäre er nicht länger Nummer 88, sondern würde schon bald in seinem geliebten Bayern zu Abend essen und später in Chemnitz die Kameraden begrüßen...Wenn!

Here I am, Charlie f--king Whitman - still pissed from last night, driving a rental car with two retarded kids in the back, somewhere between Barcelona and Paris. I used to be an art dealer. I suppose I still am, but now I do bad things for good money. Everything has its price, and I think I've just found mine.

Spoony is a kid with a heart of gold. He loves hugs, he loves affection, and he values friendship and family. But there is something about him that isn’t quite right. He can’t kick a ball, he can’t play Duck Duck Goose, and he confuses regular people for clowns. He thinks a fictitious character on an old TV show is his dad, and he just has a general way of ruining things for other people while remaining blissfully unaware.

Max is determined to change his life around from loser to winner. Fat-boy Max has never been out of Australia. In fact, in his 20-something years, Max has never even been out of his home state, but he is determined to change this. He wants to be visible, not just an invisible “fat guy”, and he has found the perfect way to achieve his goals: lose weight and get that trip overseas that he can’t quite afford.

"This is a job to die for," they said. Little did he know. Our guide takes us to the great beyond and tells us about his experiences with the sexy angels and horny devils.

Dila, c’est un roman cruel, sanglant parfois, rempli d’espoirs fragiles, d'amour et de solitude. Dila, c’est l’histoire d’une jeune fille qui cherche désespérément à s’extirper d’un monde absurde, où l’ennui domine, mais qui réalise finalement qu'il n’y a pas d’issue, ou du moins, que l’issue n’est pas là où elle l’imaginait.

Valerian hat sich aus seiner Wohnung ausgesperrt und bittet seinen Nachbarn Niko um Hilfe. Das wäre an sich nichts Außergewöhnliches, hätte dieser nicht gerade seine Frau erschossen. Niko zwingt ihn, ihm bei der Entsorgung der Leiche zu helfen, doch trotz akribischer Planung läuft die Aktion nicht so geschmiert wie erhofft. Und so folgen - mehr oder weniger unabsichtlich - noch zwei weitere Morde, und es sollten nicht die letzten sein.

All books in How to Survive the Afterlife in one box set for the first time. If you love the humor of Pratchett/Douglas Adams, the darkness of Stephen King, and the surrealism of Terry Gilliam, then this is must-listen. Includes: The Limpet Syndrome, Soul Catchers, Dead Ends, and the companion book Existential Crisis.

A red-letter day had turned bizarre as a lady in her mid-30s, Ritz Laggard, had been murdered in the most grotesque manner right at the venue of a high-powered business meeting. Inspector Brown is assigned the case file to unravel the killer and has an inkling it was state-sponsored. Meanwhile, when Stewart Larzio narrowly escaped death by the whiskers, in the same typical scenario as Ritz Laggard, it dawned on Inspector Brown that a serial killer was on the loose as he found a connection between both scenes in the same city of Bloomington.