DEAD MONKEY RUM: The Perfect Spring Break Read!

Even as you read these words, hordes of libido-fueled college students are swarming toward Cancún, Miami, Cabo San Lucas, and similar sun-drenched locations to celebrate Spring Break. Foremost on their young minds is the perennial question: Which Robert Guffey book should I bring to the beach? The obvious answer to this difficult conundrum is the Rondo Award-nominated novel DEAD MONKEY RUM, which is best appreciated with a tropical drink in one hand and a melodic Les Baxter score drifting in the background as the azure Pacific laps at the nearby seashore. Directly below, you will see a photograph of the author enjoying the first day of his Spring Break by reimmersing himself in DEAD MONKEY RUM while relaxing on the Lanai just outside the Enchanted Tiki Room with a generous serving of Dole Whip resting in his left hand. You might be wondering why he would bother reading this book when he already knows exactly what's going to happen. The truth is, DEAD MONKEY RUM never loses its luster even after the 33rd reread! So let's all help start a brand new American tradition and carry a copy of DEAD MONKEY RUM to your Spring Break destination this year! MAHALO, boys and girls!

 

PRAISE FOR DEAD MONKEY RUM:

"A remarkable rush of entertainment and thrills."

--Alan Moore (V for Vendetta and Watchmen) 

 

"Robert Guffey's fantastic novel, DEAD MONKEY RUM, will at least bring your brain out of a coma, if not get your imagination off the couch. This is a thinly masked tribute/adventure to the late Stanislaw Szukalski and his boundless imagination. This book is a mental gymnasium."

-- Robert Williams (Visual Addiction, Hysteria in Remission, and Through Prehensile Eyes)

 

"A fantastically rich and entertaining piece of work with an original sharp edge."

 -- Jim Woodring (writer/artist of Weathercraft, The Frank Book, and One Beautiful Spring Day)

 

"Stanislaw Szukalski would love DEAD MONKEY RUM. This novel is addictive like a heavy drug. Make space in your calendar to read it all."

-- Irek Dobrowolski (director of the Netflix documentary, Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski)

 

 "Yetis, Tiki Gods, Cryptozoology, and rum-filled adventure! Sign me up and tell me when the ship sails! I'm recommending this Robert Guffey novel to all my friends, family, and foes to take their minds completely off whatever they are thinking about. Wonderful."

-- Loren Coleman (Mysterious America, The Field Guide to Lake Monsters and Sea Serpents, The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Curious Encounters, and 40 other books - Director of the International Cryptozoology Museum)

 
"DEAD MONKEY RUM succeeds at being a pursuit thriller, with suspense and tension as the monkey and Stephanie evade their cryptid enemies, and comedy as the two exchange jabs at each other. It is cinematically fast. DEAD MONKEY RUM should be adapted to a [...] Ralph Bakshiesque animated film where both the zaniness of the narrative and the latent satire would really flourish."

-- Exotica Moderne

 

"One of the weirdest romps you'll ever read."

-- Fortean Times

 

UNBOXING DEAD MONKEY RUM: