Bad Intentions

Published in 1996, long out of print

Dust jacket by Ryan Dreimiller.

• In a small California town, a carnival roustabout takes a one-way road to vengeance behind the wheel of a car once owned by a notorious serial killer.
• In Hollywood, a struggling actor makes a desperate play for the biggest of scores at a "dead celebrities" costume party.
• In the Mojave Desert, a musician stalks his own ghost and the devil woman who stole it.
• In Hawaii, a disillusioned businessman discovers the true power of a myth at a forgotten shrine.
• In the Deep South, a crazed Elvis impersonator encounters a man who dares to dishonor the King's name.
• In the Old west, a gunslinging demon battles a witch and a cursed outlaw gang.

Tales of supernatural horror, dark suspense, gruesome irony, and the just-plain fantastic... twisted characters with decidedly different yet all-too-believable viewpoints... places you may have visited but have never seen clearly until now... tough yet strangely poetic prose... in-your-face shocks and nitro-laced plot twists you won't soon forget... two brand new stories, an unpublished original comic script, story notes, and an introduction by multi-talented author Joe R. Lansdale: it's all here in Bad Intentions, the long-awaited first full-length short story collection by Bram Stoker Award-winner Norman Partridge, a writer Stephen King calls "a major new talent."

Table of Contents:

• "The Electrified Boxing Hollywood Cowboy in a Gorilla Suit, or Norm Partridge Cuts Loose" (Introduction) by Joe R. Lansdale
• "Johnny Halloween"
• "Eighty-eight Sins"
• "The Cut Man"
• "Dead Celebs"
• "'59 Frankenstein"
• "Candy Bars For Elvis"
• "Styx"
• "Tyrannosaurus"
• "Wrong Side of the Road"
• "Gorilla Gunslinger"
• "Dead Man's Hand"
• "Apotropaics"
• "She's My Witch"
• "Bad Intentions"
• "Guignoir"
• "Story Notes"

Limited: 500 signed and numbered copies

A "PC" copy which is identical in every way to a limited or lettered copy but has the letters "PC" in the limitation line, the "PC" denotes "Publisher's Copy" and is one of a very few copies produced for use by the Publisher, usually for contributors.