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Marge’s night of indiscriminate passion leads to a new evil unleashed on Earth.

Bart Simmons God of Thunder, as told by Gene Simmons, is as full of machismo as the author. The brash and bawdy tale doesn’t spare the Kiss references, either.

The protagonist is as much an antagonist for much of the story. His demon-given birth rite, powered by his pre-pubescent imagination fractures reality. Only when challenged from above does he rise to meet the challenge and save Earth.

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For those not familiar with Simmons, the aging glam rocker co-founded Kiss in the early 1970s. The bass player is an unabashed fan of comic books and monsters. His costume was designed from both.

Shock rocker Alice Cooper is less predator than prey in The Legend of Batterface.

Cooper mixes a little Friday the Thirteenth with Carrie as Homer becomes a perennial killer. His modus operandi are donuts. A carefully culled phrase from his youth brings out a murderous rage as Homer exacts revenge for a long ago wrong.

Vincent Damon Furnier adopted the stage moniker Alice Cooper after shedding his initial band of the same name. The Detroit-based musician used an amalgam of musical noirs for the sound they unleashed in the early 1970s.

House of a 1000 Corpses is deconstructed for House of a Thousand Donuts when the Simpsons take a vacation.

Rob Zombie liberally steals from his first movie. Homer, Marge and the kids are subjected to a night of terror when the patriarch visits Dr. Satan’s Hall of Donuts. Krusty’s twist ending is no surprise to any who have seen the source material.

Zombie is best known as a musician. Before embarking on a solo career, the singer fronted White Zombie. He would go solo in 1998. In 2003, he turned his attention to cinema and wrote, directed and co-scored House of a 1000 Corpses. Since then, Zombie has written and directed The Devil’s Rejects, Halloween (2007) and Halloween II (2008), Werewolf Women of the SS, The Haunted World of El Superbeasto, The Lords of Salem, 31 and 3 From Hell.

The trifecta of hard rock authors is complimented by Top 40 favorite Pat Boone.

His Scareway to Heaven features Ned Flanders and a Bible camp massacre.

Boone has sold more than 45-million records, had 38 top 40 hits and appeared in more than 12 Hollywood films. His wholesome persona made him the darling of the 1950s song scene, second only to Elvis Presley.

You can almost hear Vincent Price’s voice echoing a sentiment from Thriller as the book closes.