I recently learned that the wonderful website Please Kill Me has been shut down. The site was largely the work of Alan Bisbort, whose energetic, endlessly curious Beat/Punk/Hippie sensibility informed it all. I was lucky enough to have a few stories published there – on a 1967 Doors concert, the great instrumental “Telstar,” the strange origins of Silly Putty, the lasting glory of “Help!” magazine, and the one, reprinted below, on the book “Wisconsin Death Trip,” a horror story to end all horror stories. All my Please Kill Me features can now be found here on my website. I just wanted to get them republished before they disappeared forever into the ether.

And just in case you’re interested, here are all my Please Kill Me posts in one place: https://pleasekillme.com/author/charles-monagan/