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10 Horror Books You’ve Never Read?

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Nick Cutter, author of The Troop (reviewed here) and, most recently, The Deep, compiled a list for Booklist titled  “10 Horror Books You’ve Never Read”. It’s kind of a fun list because he left off some of the books that typically appear on “Best Of” lists, but it’s kinda hard for me to believe that the average horror reader isn’t familiar with the majority of them.  Cutter notes that his taste in horror is on the “visceral” side, and certainly a number of the authors on his list don’t stint on the gore and violence. Still, it’s an interesting list, and it’s easy to see that Cutter definitely is an enthusiastic fan of horror fiction.  Here’s a  link to the list.

So, what do you think? Is there anything you’d add?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by , Reply

Book Review: D.O.A. II: Extreme Horror Collection edited by David C. Hayes and Jack Burton


D.O.A II: Extreme Horror Collection, edited by David C. Hayes and Jack Burton

Blood Bound Books, 2013

ISBN 978-0-984978274

Availability: paperback

 

D.O.A. II continues the extreme horror begun in the first anthology … and I am an unashamed lover of extreme horror.

Some of my favorite stories included:  “If Memory Serves” by Jack Ketchum, where a therapy patient with Multiple Personality Disorder was horribly abused and tortured by her parents and the Satanic cult they belonged to; “Anointed” by Lynn Smith, about a clogged baptismal font and the hapless plumber who attempts to unclog it, only to become possessed for his trouble; “A Scalene Love Triangle” by Kerry G. S. Lipp, which deals with a love triangle that comes to a horrible end; “Slice of Life” by Thomas Pluck, about two very damaged people who meet and the results of that meeting; “One Flesh: A Cautionary Tale” by Robert Devereaux, in which a father and son reincarnated together and suffer an intriguing aftermath; and “STD” by David Bernstein about an especially nasty sexually transmitted disease.

D.O.A. II is, overall, an excellent collection of truly horrid and disturbing stories, and if that’s your thing, then I highly recommend this book. As with any anthology, however, there are a few stories that I wasn’t crazy about. They weren’t bad stories, I just found them either boring or confusing. As I said, though, I love extreme horror and there is plenty of that included here. Recommended.

 

Contains blood, gore, violence

Reviewed by Colleen Wanglund

Posted on November 13, 2014 by , Reply
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