Death To Humans by Patrick Kill

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Death to Humans by Patrick Kill (the alter ego of Shane Ryan Staley) is a lost artifact of underground horror—an unholy fusion of Bizarro surrealism and Splatterpunk savagery that carved out its own deranged sub-genre: Blasphemicore. Written in the 1990s and 2000s, these stories capture the unfiltered rebellion of an author who turned shock into art and absurdity into revelation.

In this collection, Kill dismantles every illusion of civility. “The Boy with the Razor-Sharp Teeth” turns childhood cruelty into a grotesque fairy tale of loneliness and revenge. “Demonica & the Dream House” drags domestic fantasy into demonic pornography. “The Day Mr. Langford Cracked” and “The Hunter King” dissect the American dream with surgical madness, while “Clitorissa + the Incredible Edible Leg” and “Chocolate Jesus” wage war on religion, morality, and the fragile human body. Each tale bleeds into the next, building toward the apocalyptic psychosis of “Psychotica,” where God himself becomes the tormentor.

Death to Humans is not just horror—it’s a manifesto of creative anarchy, born from a time when fiction was photocopied, censored, and traded like contraband. Kill’s prose is savage, darkly funny, and fearless in its exploration of sex, death, and divinity. Beneath the grotesque spectacle lies something hauntingly sincere: a howl against conformity, hypocrisy, and the slow extinction of empathy in the modern age.

Reissued for a new generation, this definitive edition restores the complete text and celebrates a writer who helped define the modern underground. Equal parts satire, nightmare, and divine blasphemy, Death to Humans stands as one of the most important and audacious works in contemporary transgressive horror—a delirious testament to what happens when the monster finally turns on mankind.

Stories included:

• The Boy With the Razor-Sharp Teeth
• Demonica & the Dream House
• The Day Mr. Langford Cracked
• Clitorissa + the Incredible Edible Leg
• Chocolate Jesus
• Mind’s Filthy Lesson
• Screaming Greens
• Everyone’s Out To Get You, Mother Rucker!
• The Hunter King
• Psychotica