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Terry M. West’s Cecil and Bubba Meet the Thang Novel to be Released Very Soon!

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Author and director Terry M. West is a man I hold in the highest regards.  His film Flesh for the Beast was one I watched almost weekly when I was in high school.  Meeting him on Facebook and speaking with him about his work is single handily the greatest thing to happen to me for my short time here at HS.  West has stepped away from film to focus on his writing…which has been phenomenal.  I recently received info on his newest book Cecil and Bubba Meet the Thang.

You can read below the info the fine folks over at Pleasant Storm Entertainment sent me in regards to the book and release:
*The South shall rise again! CECIL & BUBBA MEET THE THANG Coming March
21st!*

Terry M. West’s horror collection, WHAT PRICE GORY?, was published by
Pleasant Storm Entertainment, Inc. on December 13th of last year. The
collection quickly became the most popular and critically successful
project that West has ever created. But one story in particular stood out
to horror fans and reviewers. CECIL & BUBBA MEET A SUCCUBUS introduced
Cecil McGee and Turner “Bubba” Teague. These two Texan slackers were cursed
for accidently running over and killing the pit bull of Rosalita, a cranky
old gypsy.

“You will be plagued by the strange and evil until the end of your days,”
she swore to them. And soon the boys found themselves in a huge paranormal
mess involving a ghost hunter from the East and a ravenous succubus that
lingered in a house reputed to be the most haunted in Texas. The story
became a favorite among many, and the perfect combination between comedy
and horror struck a favorable chord with readers.

Part of the charm was the absolutely dead-on characterization that West’s
fiction is quickly becoming famous for. Cecil is a small but wiry man. He
is naturally distrustful, vengeful, greedy and easily agitated. But beneath
it all, he has a heart of gold (which he would quickly pawn if it weren’t
pumping his blood). Bubba is a gentle giant; a large man who loves his mama
and is a firm believer in the supernatural. Bubba will believe “any flyer
you put on his windshield”, as Cecil would say. Bubba comes from a family
of “Jesus freaks and drama queens” and he is superstitious and spooks
easily.

Cecil and Bubba both are thirty year-old layabouts who have dead-end jobs.
Bubba is a bouncer at a strip club and Cecil works at the bottom of the
totem pole at his daddy’s garage. Walk into any honky-tonk in the
Dallas/Fort Worth area, and you could easily meet these two characters.

CECIL & BUBBA MEET THE THANG is a full length sequel to CECIL & BUBBA MEET
A SUCCUBUS. The new novella takes place the very next day after the events
of the first story (making it Halloween night) and this time the not so
dynamic duo find themselves tying up with the *Thang*, which turns out to
be an alien that has been buried in a small Texas town for over one hundred
years. The creature has been awoken by the energy of the curse, and it is
anxious to devour our world. The only form of defense we have are our two
redneck underachievers who are only now starting to understand the curse
that they carry and the ramifications that it will have. And while the
horror/comedy tale definitely has thick Southern flavorings, West promises
it is not a parody and that the humor doesn’t belittle his characters or
people from the South.

“I’m a Texan.” West explained, proudly. “I was born in a small town called
Lake Worth and I spent the first twenty-five years of my life in the lone
star state. I am ferociously proud of my heritage. Cecil & Bubba are
characters I have been playing around with for years. They are comprised of
many people I knew in my youth.”

West also lamented the lack of strong and positive Southern role models in
horror fiction when he was a child: “Growing up, it was very rare that I
read a horror story where a good old boy with a drawl turned out to be the
hero. Usually when I would run across a Southern character I could identify
with, that character was a victim or a villain or played strictly for
comedy relief. Cecil & Bubba are different. Yes, the things they say are
often hysterical, but they aren’t helpless bumpkins. They are characters
who, flawed as they may be on occasion, care about each other and what is
right. And when they decide to put the boots to something, they don’t hold
back. It usually concludes with something blowing up. Real good.”

CECIL & BUBBA MEET THE THANG will be available on Amazon on March 21, 2014. A
Kindle version will be offered with a trade paperback in the works shortly
thereafter.

Depending on the response to their newest adventure, future Cecil & Bubba
tales are a definite possibility. “If people want them, they’ll return,”
West promised. “I don’t know how frequently they will appear, as I don’t
want the boys to wear out their welcome. But I have plenty of adventures to
cook up for them.”

If you can’t wait to get your hands on this one, WHAT PRICE GORY? is
currently available on Amazon and features the CECIL & BUBBA MEET A
SUCCUBUS tale as well as a special preview of CECIL & BUBBA MEET THE THANG
which presents the first 3000 words of the novella.

Those of you that have yet to check out West’s other book, What Price Gorey?, can do so by going here!

www.terrymwest.com

www.pleasantstorm.com

www.facebook.com/terry.m.west

Blacktooth

(Staff Writer) Lover of all things horror and metal. Also likes boobs and booze.

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  1. “Cecil and Bubba Meet the Thang” is an awesome read. All his stories have been great but Cecil and Bubba are characters that I love to read and hope there will be more to come in the future.

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