{"id":3595,"date":"2014-11-13T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:08:43","slug":"book-review-d-o-a-ii-extreme-horror-collection-edited-by-david-c-hayes-and-jack-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-d-o-a-ii-extreme-horror-collection-edited-by-david-c-hayes-and-jack-burton\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: D.O.A. II: Extreme Horror Collection edited by David C. Hayes and Jack Burton"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nD.O.A II: Extreme Horror Collection<\/a>,<\/em> edited by David C. Hayes and Jack Burton<\/p>\n

Blood Bound Books, 2013<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-0-984978274<\/p>\n

Availability: paperback<\/p>\n

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D.O.A. II<\/em> continues the extreme horror begun in the first anthology \u2026 and I am an unashamed lover of extreme horror.<\/p>\n

Some of my favorite stories included:\u00a0 \u201cIf Memory Serves\u201d 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; \u201cAnointed\u201d by Lynn Smith, about a clogged baptismal font and the hapless plumber who attempts to unclog it, only to become possessed for his trouble; \u201cA Scalene Love Triangle\u201d by Kerry G. S. Lipp, which deals with a love triangle that comes to a horrible end; \u201cSlice of Life\u201d by Thomas Pluck, about two very damaged people who meet and the results of that meeting; \u201cOne Flesh: A Cautionary Tale\u201d by Robert Devereaux, in which a father and son reincarnated together and suffer an intriguing aftermath; and \u201cSTD\u201d by David Bernstein about an especially nasty sexually transmitted disease.<\/p>\n

D.O.A. II<\/em> is, overall, an excellent collection of truly horrid and disturbing stories, and if that\u2019s your thing, then I highly recommend this book. As with any anthology, however, there are a few stories that I wasn\u2019t crazy about. They weren\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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Contains blood, gore, violence<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Colleen Wanglund<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2026 and I am an unashamed lover of extreme horror. Some of my favorite stories included:\u00a0 \u201cIf Memory Serves\u201d by Jack Ketchum,<\/p>\n

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