BADASS HORROR
by Gerard Brennan, Garry Kilworth, Michael Hemmingson, Ronald Damien Malfi, Gord Rollo, Davin Ireland, Michael Boatman
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Author: Davin Ireland, Garry Kilworth, Gerard Brennan, Gord Rollo, Michael Boatman, Michael Hemmingson, Ronald Damien MalfiEditor: Michael Stone
Editor: Christopher J. Hall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-02-15
ISBN: 097665461X
Number of pages: 148
Publisher: Dybbuk Press, LLC
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Book Review: Delicious Horror
Summary: 5 Stars
Sporting a dark, powerful cover and delicious illustrations that shed a menacing light on the corresponding text, the seven stories featured here, by writers hailing from Maryland, California, Ireland and Holland, among other places, oscillate between the brutal and the sensitive, earthly violence and fantastic gore, moronic mafia men and funny zombies. A follow-up to Teddy Bear Cannibal Massacre, the debut release from Dybbuk Press, Badass Horror is a tremendous improvement. Everything looks better this time, from the choice of material to the graphic design, from the layout and typesetting to the overall production. My favorite is Michael Hemmingson's "Hardboiled Stiff," an impressive tribute to classic detective fiction that employs all the familiar conventions of the genre in a refreshing, self-referential way: the mysterious broad who kicks off the plot with a sexually charged visit to the private eye's office, the witty dialogue, the missing daughter of a rich senator, hippie orgies, and the inevitable clash between conservative politics and free love - only this time Vietnam victims are rising from the dead, determined to take control over the streets of Miami and punish those who sent them to die. Another good story is Gord Rollo's "Moving Pictures," an urban-oriental legend about a deadly Chinese tattoo with a life of its own, an intense piece that abounds, like most of the stories here, in elaborate metaphors, stubborn adjectives and adverbs, and charming, out-of-control similes: "Ronnie's smile fell off his face like an outcropping of ice dropping from the edge of a glacier into the cold dark sea" (102). Or: "Ronnie's cocky attitude wilted and died, fear literally squeezing the breath from his lungs, like a hug from a world record Boa Constrictor" (103). An interesting effort from an original press that promises to deliver regular doses of disturbing fiction.
Summary of BADASS HORROR
This collection of horror stories will slap you in the face, kick you in the teeth and burn cigarette holes in your couch. These stories of pool halls, whiskey, junkies, and angel-tinged lunacy reach to the edge of human endurance and push all the harder. A detective wakes up in a shallow grave with a bullet hole in his chest and a taste for brains. A drug dealer tortures the privileged. A whorehouse keeps a strange "pet" and a man discovers the secret to all human passion. These seven stories, written by some of the best writers of modern fiction including Garry Kilworth, Ron Damien Malfi, Michael Boatman and Michael Hemmingson, will dull the pain of the hole that Hubert Selby jr.'s death left in your nasty bitter heart.Horror Books
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