RIP Fetal Backwash. This book was banned on Amazon. I'm DEFINITELY not brainstorming a sneaky way to bring it back to print. But for now ... check it RIP Fetal Backwash. This book was banned on Amazon. I'm DEFINITELY not brainstorming a sneaky way to bring it back to print. But for now ... check it out on Godless! ...more
Not sure how true it is but it's a GREAT little chiller. Genuinely spooked me a few times too! Not sure how true it is but it's a GREAT little chiller. Genuinely spooked me a few times too! ...more
This is one of my favorite Goosebumps covers. Unfortunately, not my favorite Goosebumps story. But it's got its merits! This is one of my favorite Goosebumps covers. Unfortunately, not my favorite Goosebumps story. But it's got its merits! ...more
Yeah I'm gonna need you all to read this one too. Went in expecting dinosaur action. Got that ... but also got well rounded characters and a nutso vilYeah I'm gonna need you all to read this one too. Went in expecting dinosaur action. Got that ... but also got well rounded characters and a nutso villain. Chisto Healy is rad as hell....more
Huge thank you to David Dickey for gifting me this book! . . Happily married, Patrick thinks life is good when he goes to sleep. But when he wakes up ...Huge thank you to David Dickey for gifting me this book! . . Happily married, Patrick thinks life is good when he goes to sleep. But when he wakes up ... everything has changed. His wife, Sam, is no longer Sam. She still looks like her ... but she's ... different. . . Lord ... if this book had come out recently the online discourse would be ... frustrating. . . Written by legendary splatterpunk author Jack Ketchum and underrated horror filmmaker Lucky McKee ... I'M NOT SAM seems like it'd be a gore filled romp into the depraved. Right? . . Well ... this ain't that type of story. Instead, I'M NOT SAM is a complicated drama, steeped in so much darkness that it fits in the horror field even though there's no ghosts, slashers, or monsters hiding under anyone's bed. Instead, the horrors manifest in the form of an undiagnosed mental breakdown ... and a husband who makes decisions for his wife even though he's got no clue what he's doing. I don't want to SPOIL it for folks who haven't read it ... so here's your warning as well as my recommendation. Read I'M NOT SAM. It doesn't have a body count or a bloodbath ... but it gave me some of the deepest chills I've ever experienced while reading a book. . . Seriously though, I love when books don't tell the audience what's right or wrong. I feel some authors are scared of leaving characters in a gray space .. and it's a justifiable fear. With the state of modern literacy, if you don't proclaim in your book that a bad action is bad, some audience members will take that writing as a ringing endorsement from the author. And that's simply not the case with I'M NOT SAM ... which is a book that chooses to leave the reader hanging on a terrible decision. One which alters our perception of whether or not the main character is really the loving husband he's made himself out to be. . . It's complicated, and its implications absolutely SHOULD Leave the reader feeling not only revolted ... but betrayed. We're basically set up the way the wife is. We trust our narrator. He's a nice guy. Sensitive .... caring ... loving. In fact, it brings to mind that oh so common sentiment ... "you don't mean /all/ men are capable of abuse ... riiiiiiiight?"...more
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