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The tagline on the back cover of the book reads: “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll vomit.”\u00a0 And, they aren’t kidding.\u00a0 This is one of the most extreme collections ever published: 30 stories of raunchy, sex-driven, blood-drenched mayhem.\u00a0 The stories are good, just prepare for revulsion.\u00a0 This is for true hardcore lovers only– keep the kids away from this one.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The book’s pedigree is impressive, as Edward Lee, Jack Ketchum, Wrath James White, Bentley Little, and Richard Matheson are among the authors represented.\u00a0 The stories are generally entertaining and well-written.\u00a0 If there’s a theme, most of the stories involve horrible people doing horrible things to each other.\u00a0 No joke: there are some VERY ugly torture sequences in this book that make Eli Roth films seem like Disney movies. \u00a0 There are some stories with a paranormal bent, which helps keep the book from getting too one-dimensional.\u00a0 The originality is decent, although not to the level of the <\/span>Welcome to the Splat Club <\/span><\/i>series.\u00a0 As we’ve come to expect from Blood Bound Books, there is an undercurrent of dark humor threaded through many of the stories, which helps balance out the overall story mood. Notable stories worth mentioning include:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
“Hostile” is only four pages, but it is comedic genius.\u00a0 Jeff Strand’s hilarious twist on the <\/span>Hostel<\/span><\/i> movie series proves that the worst situations can be amusing, when written correctly.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In “Taking Root”, a virulent strain of plant spores has contaminated Earth, turning people into\u2026 plants, of a sort.\u00a0 Two survivors find that, unfortunately, an apocalypse still doesn’t change peoples’ predatory instincts, or their bad nature.\u00a0 Despite sounding grim, it’s a light-hearted take on doomsday writing.\u00a0 Plants growing out of a person’s rear <\/span>can<\/span><\/i> be funny!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In “Ritchie”, Jackson killed Ritchie the bully when he was a kid, but Ritchie has a bad habit of coming back from the dead once a year.\u00a0 So, Jackson has to kill him, again.\u00a0 And again, and again.\u00a0 The fun part is, Ritchie’s injuries from each death carry over year to year, and he becomes less intimidating to the point of hilarity… but Ritchie may still have a trick or two up his sleeve\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u00a0It’s worth mentioning that this isn’t ‘peek under the bed and close the curtains out of fear’ horror writing.\u00a0 These aren’t scary, and aren’t meant to be.\u00a0 This is straight-up extreme splat writing to the max.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Bottom line: if the members of Cannibal Corpse and GWAR decided to write short stories instead of lyrics, then <\/span>DOA III <\/span><\/i>is probably what you would get.\u00a0 Recommended for hardcore fans only.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Reviewed by Murray Samuelson<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" D.O.A. III: An Extreme Horror Anthology\u00a0edited by S.C. Mendes Blood Bound Books, 2017 ISBN: 9781940250267 Available: Paperback, Kindle\u00a0edition Buy from:\u00a0 \u00a0Amazon.com The tagline on the back cover of the book reads: “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll vomit.”\u00a0 And, they aren’t kidding.\u00a0 This is one of the most extreme collections ever published: 30 stories<\/p>\n
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