eyeballs growing all over me ...again [Paperback]

Tony Rauch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 2010

A man comes home to discover a Bigfoot-like creature watching his tv, a giant robot pays a visit to a couple, a new kid has some unusual toys to share, an inventor creates a gorgeous robot in order to meet women,  a girl becomes so ill she has her head replaced with a goat head, someone wakes to discover little eyes growing all over his body, small, hairy creatures come looking to retrieve an object they had misplaced, and a boy finds an unusual pair of sunglasses in the weeds. These are the whimsical, surreal adventures of Tony Rauch.

"Absurd, surreal, playful, dream-like, whimsical, and a lot of fun to read. Tony Rauch has been one of my favorite short story writers for a long time. Like Richard Brautigan, he's an uncompromising artistic visionary with one heck of an imagination." - CARLTON MELLICK III, author of The Egg Man

"Tony Rauch's storys are comical, absurd, bittersweet, and simply a joy to read. Highly recommended." - CAMERON PIERCE, author of The Pickled Apocalypse of Pancake Island

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Eraserhead Press; paperback / softback edition (October 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1936383330
• ISBN-13: 978-1936383337
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.3 x 5.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,827,101 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Bizarro Ray Bradbury January 4, 2011

By Grant Wamack

Format:Paperback

Eyeballs growing all over me...again is Tony Rauch's third book. It's a short story collection full of giant robots, miniature football figures that come to life, time travel, scientists, and giant chickens.

The stories inside vary in subject matter, but most seem to be sci-fi. They reminded me of old episodes of Twilight Zone and as I read many of these I couldn't help thinking these would make excellent episodes. Rauch is like the bizarro version of Ray Bradbury.

One of the standout stories is "send krupac through the portal". It's about a man who wants to win his love, Margo, back, but can't seem to do it no matter how hard he tries. So he decides to slip into another time stream where they have never met to try again. This could easily be developed into a novella or even a novel.

Many times Rauch's stories end pretty quick. This works fantastically at times, leaving the reader pondering the story long after it has ended. Other times stories end abruptly and feel as if they should have been developed just a bit more.

At its heart, Eyeball's growing all over me...again is an endearing short collection about everyday problems such as love, fear, and paranoia growing to horrific proportions of absurdity.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Eyeballs Growing All Over Me...Again February 4, 2012

By Anthony Fischer

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this was my introduction to Tony Rauch's work and i really enjoyed it. it's a collection of a little over 20 short stories, most only a couple pages long and ranging from topics such as coming home from work to find a large hairy monster watching TV (The Stench) to a man's head suddenly growing to immense proportions (Big Head). my 3 favorite stories are probably The Procedure, People Have Been Drifting Away Lately and The Sandbox but i don't recall a bad story in the bunch. all of his stories seem to be touched with a strange melancholy, but can also be quite fun and whimsical. it's not as crazy as the stuff Erasherhead usually puts out but i'd still recommend it to Bizarro fans. i'll definitely be checking out more of Rauch's books.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Strange, Very Weird, and Very Entertaining! October 9, 2011

By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Format:Paperback

Tony Rauch has an eye and an ear and writing skill that manages to put hallucinations or fantasies or nightmares into words. EYEBALLS GROWING ALL OVER ME...AGAIN is a collection of short stories that will startle the reader, fool the mind, and introduce the public to a writer with a keen sense of humor wrapped in weird stories. His technique of offering this strange tales in short story fashion suits him well and he definitely has that idiom down to a science. No matter how strange the story seems as we are reading each of them, Rauch manages to punch us in the gut with the closing paragraph.

The book is divided into three sections, each section opens with a photograph as imaginative as the stories that follow: Part I: 'tomorrow, through the portal' opens the book with one of the best of his tales -an extended 'discovery' of a brew that contains homunculi too familiar to ignore...Part II 'I found them in the weeds' continues his preoccupation with alien forms - or diversions thereof, and Part III: 'Now we can but a monkey' -well, they just get more weird and more intoxicatingly fun to read.

Some writers who approach this genre just can't carry it off because they take themselves too seriously. That is where Tony Rauch differs. No matter how bizarre the story there is always a sense of underlying good humor - so you don't have to leave the light on if you read these at bedtime....! Grady Harp, October 11