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Post by erebus on Mar 27, 2013 11:23:49 GMT
From Deadite Press, this small flimsy style book contains three tales ranging from the subtle and strange to the outrageously grim.
The first and by far the weakest story is The Decoration Technician. Set in the far distant future of 2202 it concerns a character named Doug Jonsin who is a civilian astro entomologist. Aboard his vast space station/cruiser one day the crew discover a unique UFO. But even more bizarre is its occupant and where exactly has he come from ?
Next is The Cyesolagniac. This is more like the style of the author. For the uninformed a Cyesolagniac is a person with a pregnancy fetish. Our main character Heyton is away promoting with his work. Sitting in his seedy motel jerking offover porn mags to his fetish he decides to drive out to find a particular prostitute who is pregnant. By chance he stumbles on the girl of his dreams. But it all soon becomes a nightmare. And the following day at his conference things take a dreadful turn for the worse.
The final and longest story is, Room 415. Again another business man named Flood is also on business close to the Gulf of Mexico. In his luxury room he has hired he overhears a conversation between two pimps and their prostitute, peering through the window he glimpses the trio. It escalates into violence and its here Flood discovers something he never knew about himself. Something that he is ashamed to admit but cannot clear from his mind. To elaborate would spoil the story, but the ending has a nice little twist and some closure for the main character.
The book is a fast read and quite entertaining. Those familiar with the writers work will know he specialises in hardcore extreme horror. The three tales here are not as depraved as his usual output. In fact the first The Decoration Technician is rather timid and lame and has no real reason for being in this book. The other two have their moments though.
A nod to the cover, which features a great piece of artwork depicting a face being impaled and torn by sharp spikes.
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Post by ripper on Apr 3, 2013 10:28:10 GMT
I haven't read any of Lee's short stories as yet. I do have a couple of his more recent novels in my "to read" pile, and I did read one of his earlier books, The Big Head, which claimed to be the uncensored version. I don't know if the mass market paperbacks he has written reach the heights (or should that be depths?) of nastiness found in The Big Head, but there were some rather gross scenes in it.
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