{"id":10295,"date":"2024-06-18T22:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T02:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=10295"},"modified":"2024-06-18T22:54:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T02:54:24","slug":"book-review-f-u-b-b-by-daniel-volpe-candace-nola-and-jasper-bark-dark-tide-horror-novellas-book-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-f-u-b-b-by-daniel-volpe-candace-nola-and-jasper-bark-dark-tide-horror-novellas-book-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: F.U.B.B by Daniel Volpe, Candace Nola, and Jasper Bark (Dark Tide Horror Novellas Book 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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F.U.B.B.<\/em> by Daniel Volpe, Candace Nola, and Jasper Bark (Dark Tide Horror Novellas Book 14)<\/p>\n

Crystal Lake Publishing, 2024<\/p>\n

ISBN: 9781957133928<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle edition<\/p>\n

Buy: Amazon.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re going to title a book F<\/em>*cked Up Beyond Belief<\/em>, you had better back it up.\u00a0 And man, do they ever in this one.\u00a0 These three hardcore novellas are exactly that: blood-drenched gorefests, with excellent stories and writing to boot.\u00a0 These are like Eli Roth films, the main difference being these actually have good plots and are addicting to read.\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at the basics, shall we?<\/p>\n

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“Church of the Splatter Spray Saints” is a crazed take on modern tent-pole revivals, although the basic theme fits with some real-life ones, like \u2018screwing the people for fun and profit (mainly profit).\u2019\u00a0 In this case, the revival is run by organized crime, and they have a sentient virus to contend with that may bring the whole house down.\u00a0 For a horror novella, it has a fairly intricate plot, and all the pieces fit perfectly.\u00a0 Body parts fly and pain abounds as people pay to witness voluntary suicides, all in the name of worshipping the Blood.\u00a0 Totally screwed up, and totally fun.<\/p>\n

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“Double Feature” is my personal favorite.\u00a0 Combine a typical Friday night at a hick town drive-in with a group of redneck nuts somewhat resembling the lunatics from the movie Wrong Turn<\/em>, and you have a story, and a \u00a0very well written one it is.\u00a0 A good setup and absolutely breakneck pace keep this one firing till the end.\u00a0 It\u2019s frightening to think of any people actually being like the antagonists in this one: they have absolutely no remorse for the warped things they do.\u00a0 And, their motive? \u00a0Money.\u00a0 The best part is that author Candace Nola excels in misdirection.\u00a0 Every time you expect the story to zig, it zags instead, right to the hilariously ironic ending.<\/p>\n

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“The Chatter of the Night Bugs”: is an agonizing story of “white trash”, snuff films, and black magic.\u00a0 Fair warning: this one is the most difficult to read of the three. The torture sequences are brutal, made all the worse by the fact that you care about the victim in this one.\u00a0 However, payback is a wonderful thing, and old mountain magic provides the means for punishing the evildoers a hundred times over, in the form of bugs, and… something else.\u00a0 This was a creative take on old Appalachian legends.\u00a0 Revenge has never been sweeter than in this story.<\/p>\n

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The ol\u2019 bottom line? This book should win some sort of award for best horror story collection this year.\u00a0 For horror fans in general, and gorehounds in particular, this is a can\u2019t miss.\u00a0 Highly recommended (to those with a strong stomach, that is).<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/p>\n

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F.U.B.B. by Daniel Volpe, Candace Nola, and Jasper Bark (Dark Tide Horror Novellas Book 14) Crystal Lake Publishing, 2024 ISBN: 9781957133928 Available: Paperback, Kindle edition Buy: Amazon.com     If you\u2019re going to title a book F*cked Up Beyond Belief, you had better back it up.\u00a0 And man, do they ever in this one.\u00a0 These<\/p>\n

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