Trapped in a carnival-like dimension, self- proclaimed prankster Hal finds himself center ring in the worst show on earth! Confident he can outsmart his surroundings, Hal is presented with three haunting doors, a deafening silence, and a whole lot of questions. Which door will Hal choose? Or is he simply a clown in the Phantom ringleader's circus of peril?
"e;The Traveller"e; is a work of fiction. The Traveller finds himself standing on a country road and knows he has to follow it to the end. He remembers nothing of his past life or knows why he does not need to eat or drink. He starts on his long journey in autumn, eventually travelling through all seasons. On the way he experiences many situations and meets a variety of human reactions, even escaping from a prison. He finds the journey long and arduous, especially having to sleep out in the open, underneath hedges and in barns suffering from the cold. He wants to turn back which he knows is impossible and at long last comes to the end of the road. Confronting him is a large bleak windowless building. What awaits him there? He enters to face the consequences.
Juliette never wants to see Samuel again. In fact, she’d prefer it if he stayed on his side of the island and she on hers, but when a good friend becomes a monster’s latest victim, she has to turn to him. Things between them are icy and cold, but she manages to keep things civil. However, as the clues in the case reveal the true monster, Juliette isn’t sure she’ll ever be able to trust anyone again.
A “hilarious” (Dax Shepard), “surprisingly emotional trip” (The Chainsmokers) through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics Anonymous, by the writer and comedian Moshe Kasher “Moshe Kasher has the rare gift to simultaneously celebrate a community while also making fun of it. His writing succinctly captures the insanity, the joy, the ridiculousness, and the radical act of fully embracing these worlds.”—Nick Kroll After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: “What’s next?” Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot. There was his time as a boy-king of Alcoholics Anonymous, a kind of pubescent proselytizer for other teens getting and staying sober. He was a rave promoter turned DJ turned sober ecstasy dealer in San Francisco’s techno warehouse party scene of the 1990s. For fifteen years he worked as a psychedelic security guard at Burning Man, fishing hippies out of hidden chambers they’d constructed to try to sneak into the event. As a child of deaf parents, Kasher became deeply immersed in deaf culture and sign language interpretation, translating everything from end-of-life care to horny deaf clients’ attempts to hire sex workers. He reconnects and tries to make peace with his ultra-Hasidic Jewish upbringing after the death of his father before finally settling into the comedy scene where he now makes his living. Each of these scenes gets a gonzo historiographical rundown before Kasher enters the narrative and tells the story of the lives he has spent careening from one to the next. A razor-sharp, gut-wrenchingly funny, and surprisingly moving tour of some of the most wildly distinct subcultures a person can experience, Subculture Vulture deftly weaves together memoir and propulsive cultural history. It’s a story of finding your people, over and over again, in different settings, and of knowing without a doubt that wherever you are is where you’re supposed to be.
