A review by criminolly
Death is Funny Sometimes by M.C. August

dark funny tense medium-paced

4.0

A pleasingly varied and very satisfying short story collection. Broadly speaking it's horror, but there is some crime and sci fi in here too. There's a definite movie theme to a number of the stories (one is about a middle aged giallo actress, another concerns snuff movies) and what struck me as the author's greatest strength was the characters' dialogue, which really is pretty great. 
As the title suggests, there is a string vein of black humour running through it all, which helps make the goings on seem not too horrible, even when they are pretty horrible.
All in all a very enjoyable set of shorts to sit down with. I particularly enjoyed the descriptively titled 'Dead Kid at a Sleepover'.