Creature Feature: A Horrid Comedy by Steven Paul Leiva

NAMED A “TOP BOOK OF 2020” by the Montreal Times! In 1962, Kathy Anderson, a serious actress trained at the Actors Studio, is stuck playing Vivacia, the Vampire Woman, for a local Chicago TV station. Fed up showing old monster movies to creature feature fans, she quits and heads to New York and Broadway. She stops to visit her parents in Placidville, the middle-class, blissfully ordinary small town she grew up in. But things are strange in Placidville. Kathy’s parents, her best friend from high school, the local druggist, and even the Oberhausen twins are all acting curiously creepy, odiously odd, and wholly weird. Especially the town’s super geeky nerd, Gerald, who warns of dark days ahead. Has Kathy entered a zone in the twilight? Did she reach the limits that are outer? Has she fallen through a mirror that is black? Or is it just politics as usual?

Category: Fantasy – Paranormal & Urban