All You Can Eat

Shane McKenzie

Praise for Shane McKenzie

All You Can Eat

“McKenzie’s prose strikes like a sledge-hammer to the belly and a baseball bat to the crotch. He writes one-hundred-percent BALLS TO THE WALL, and I’m certain his name will soon rank high on the short list of effective extreme-horror authors.”

—Edward Lee, Stoker Award winning author of Brain Cheese Buffet, The Bighead, and Header

“Unflinching and uncompromising, tough and talented, Shane McKenzie stands at the forefront of the next generation of horror writers.”

—Bentley Little, Stoker Award winning author of The Summoning, The Store, and The Haunted

“Edward Lee fans are going to dig All You Can Eat! My advice? Devour this in one sitting, before it eats you!”

—J. F. Gonzalez, Author of Survivor, Back From the Dead, and the co-author of the Clickers series.

“Shane McKenzie has a wonderful grasp of the dark and terrible. He truly understands what terrifies us and his love for the horrific comes through in every ghastly sentence he composes.”

—Wrath James White, author of His Pain, Population Zero, and Like Porno for Psychos

“Shane McKenzie’s prose churns with horror, strangeness, fun, and unease. He’s an exciting new voice in the horror genre.”

—Nate Southard, author of Just Like Hell

“Shane McKenzie has the kind of imagination that should require a license to operate. He is one to watch.”

—Ray Garton, author of Live Girls, Crucifax Autumn, and Sex and Violence in Hollywood

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This book was my first actual sale, and a lot of people helped me get to this point. First of all, I want to thank Jeff, Rose, Carlton, and everyone at Eraserhead for taking a chance on me and welcoming me into the Deadite family. A big thank you to Nate Southard who read through the first draft of this and didn’t tell me to go fuck myself afterward. Thank you to Kevin Wallis, AJ Brown, and Lee Thompson for all the help early on. Thanks to Jessy Marie Roberts for letting me run with my ideas. Thank you to RJ and Boyd at Cutting Block for helping me better understand what it takes to get an editor’s attention. Thank you to all the fine folks at the Zoetrope offices. And of course, thank you Melinda, my wife, for all the support through everything. You read this book and are still married to me, so in my eyes, you’re a bad ass motherfucker.

For Wrath James White.

This wouldn’t have been possible without your help.