The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin

'About this title' may belong to another edition of this title. Although substantially darker and edgier than the Hitchhiker's series, this gem will appeal to Douglas Adams fans, as well as lovers of British humor in general.Ĭopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Although the story is wickedly clever and the payoff is a great and satisfying surprise, the real delight comes from watching Rankin work his linguistic magic: characters talk in hilariously circular and self-aware dialogue, and puns and wordplay are packed into the prose like sardines in a tin. Rankin doesn't just drop names of familiar characters but gives them riotous back stories: Miss Muffett hosts a daytime TV talk show called 'The Tuffet' Mother Goose (who prefers to be called Madame Goose) runs a brothel Humpty Dumpty was likely a failed television stuntman named Terry Horsey. The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin. When Little Boy Blue is offed, it's clear that a serial killer is prowling Toy City, leaving behind the titular chocolate bunnies as his calling card. He meets up with detective teddy bear Eddie, who is investigating the murder of Humpty Dumpty. Thirteen-year-old Jack goes to the City to find his fortune, unaware that the City is in fact Toy City, where legends and fables walk (or stumble, if they've had too much to drink).

Like a mad toymaker's fever dream, Rankin's uproarious book imagines a town where toys and nursery rhymes come to life and pursue human activities: they walk, talk, eat, drink and commit heinous crimes.