Tales from the gas station, volume 1, Jack Townsend
- Crafty Goblin
- Mar 18
- 2 min read
Tales from the gas station, Vol.1
Author : Jack Townsend
Publisher : Self Published
Released : 31 october 2018
Page count : 326
Format : Ebook
Genre : Creepypasta horror, comedic horror
Content warnings : Gore, deaths, Violence, Blood, swearing
Source : kobo Shop
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Part of a Series : 1/4
★★★★☆ — I really liked this book
Quote from the book:
“No, dude, I’m working at a shitty gas station in the middle of nowhere and I’m perfectly happy being miserable until I die. Good day, sir.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One
Summary :
Working at a dead-end retail job in the middle of nowhere can be hard. The long hours. The helpless customers. The enormous eldritch horror living deep below the building…
As the only full-time employee at the twenty-four hour gas station at the edge of town, Jack has pretty much seen it all. But when he decides to start an online journal documenting the bizarre day-to-day occurrences, he unwittingly attracts the attention of much more than just a few conspiracy theorists. With the body count steadily on the rise and a dark, ancient force infecting the dreams of everyone around him, Jack will do everything in his power to stay out of the way and mind his own business.
After all, he’s just a gas station clerk. It’s not like he’s getting paid enough to wage battle against the nightmarish aberrations plaguing his community. Besides, he already has his hands full attempting to manage all those mysterious lawn gnomes, the mutant raccoons, and the charming phantom cowboy who lives in the bathroom.
Based on the award-winning creepypasta by GasStationJack, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One is a love letter to the pioneers of classic horror tailored to a generation that grew up in the era of smartphones and WiFi.
My Thoughts on this Book :
Absurdity all over and characters so crazy and unhinged but it's still works. I would even say that it is why it is working.
It's fun to read and the main character is so blasé that he's taking every scarry events or absurd stuff like it's a normal day on earth.
Perfect dark sense of humor, loyal characters with loose moral who kind of stick together even with all the shit happening. Jack is a wacky, sarcastic and kind of unreliable narrator and all the customers of the gas station are their own kind of weirdness at cosmic level.
A great bizarre and hilarious cosmic comedic horror with a Neurospicy induced plot for a well written creepypasta horror series.
I'll definitely read the rest of the series soon.
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