Jeff Strand just made the following announcement on his blog:

"My novel Benjamin's Parasite now has an official release date: February 2009.

As with The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Gleefully Macabre Tales, and Suckers, it'll be published by Delirium Books. But you'll be able to get this book as a trade paperback. Everybody can have one!"

I was fortunate enough to read an advance copy--make that an advance Word document--of Benjamin's Parasite, and I can tell you that it's even more outrageous, over the top, and hilarious than The Sinister Mr. Corpse, which I loved. This one will appeal not only to the cadre of Strand's Seriously Whacked fans, but to folks whose insides are warmed, if not eaten, by memories of Frank Henenlotter's BRAIN DAMAGE and Fred Dekker's NIGHT OF THE CREEPS.

We'll be re-interviewing Strand in a couple of weeks as part of Fear Zone's One Year Anniversary, and we plan to get to the bottom of all of this parasitism. Leisure Books recently acquired Strand's straight up thriller Pressure for mass market consumption.