Swish Upon a Star

A darkly comic novel - grown-ups only! - about make-believe horror movie star Guy Thanatos.

Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee, they were all scary, but Guy (pronounced “Ghee”) Thanatos was the scariest of them all, and off-screen, the nicest of them all. So why do so many people around him wind up suddenly dead? And why does his mother never have an alibi?

Acclaimed comic novelist Douglas McEwan answers these questions in this blackly comic tale which has been described as “I, Claudius in 20th Century Hollywood.”

Is My Gruesome Life the scariest comic novel ever written or the funniest horror novel of all time? You’ll have to decide. Just don’t read it in the dark. Your laughter may wake the dead!

For mature audiences only