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Bullet Through Your Face

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Finally, after what seems like aeons, someone(Deadite Press) has released some of Ed Lee's rather obscure and somewhat hard to find(unless you've got a fat wallet) stories in paperback form. Two wonderful collections of Lee grossness and nastiness as only he can write'em. The one I'm reviewing is Bullet Through Your Face(the other is Brain Cheese Buffet... available here on amazon for an incredibly low price), which is a novella collection, the other being a short story collection. I'll focus strictly on Bullet Through Your Face for this review.

If you've never read any of Ed's wide range of novella's, then you are in for a helluva treat. In BTYF you get 3 novellas, Ever Nat, The Salt Diviner, and The Refrigerator Full Of Sperm. Each one of them will probably gross you out and if you're like me(warped and perverted sense of humor) you'll be splitting a side from laughter. I think Ever Nat and Refrigerator Full Of Sperm are two of Ed's best novellas, though that could easily be debated since their are quite a few that are awesome.

Ever Nat was originally published(only) in a 70 page limited edition chapbook and has been known to fetch fairly high prices($70) on ebay. Up until I reread this in this collection, it had been a few years since I'd given it a read. It still has the same impact! You're probably thinking what in the world does Ever Nat mean? Think really redneck terminology wise and you're on the right track. If you're easily offended by penises the size of summer squash and someone getting reamed with said member you may want to steer clear. As I mentioned earlier, I a bit warped and find this story hilarious!

The Refrigerator Full Of Sperm was originally published(if I remember correctly) in a collection written by Lee and John Pelan titled Splatterspunk: The Micah Hays Stories. It's been a long time since I read that collection, but I remember it being an absolutely hilarious collection(and pricey and hard to find). Think aliens, sperm, a police deputy with a huge member, rednecks, more aliens, more sperm, sex, violence, more sperm, redneck speak, and you've got a side splitting combo that will make you gag and laugh at the same time. Love this story!

The cover artwork is absolutely amazing and very fitting for this collection. You'll feel like you took a bullet through the face after reading these 3 novellas. If you're into redneck psycho rapists, aliens, huge members, sperm, butt raping, redneck terminology, gore, violence, blood, guts and every other vile thing you can think of you'll want to get this NOW! If you're not grossed out by these stories there is something seriously wrong with you. Now that I think about I wonder if there's something wrong with Lee for thinking up this kind of stuff. Oh who cares, I still love him for it!

I really hope we'll see more collections of this sort from Lee in the future. I would love to see The Case Of The Police Officer's ****ring and The Piano Player Who Had No Fingers reprinted in a collection. Next up for me to read is Lee's other recently released collection, Brain Cheese Buffet. Buy Bullet Through Your Face and you'll be gagging and laughing at the same time. That's a good thing!

The first story is good. The second story is great. The third story will make you throw up all over the pages... in a good way.

You think they couldn't make a story from this book into a movie because of the gore... hell they couldn't make some of this into movie because of the dialog alone. If I went on Howard Stern and started saying some of the stuff the good PFC Hays (he is one of the good guys mind you) says in the first few pages they would throw me out of the studio for being gross.

That's how gross this is!

I'll never think of vaginal polyps the same way again...

To paraphrase George Clooney during a press conference about Princess Diana's death, "Leisure Horror is dead, and who do we blame for it?" Well folks let me tell ya, they did it to themselves. They had some shady business practices and soon authors weren't getting paid and they were getting frustrated. Enter a small press outfit in Oregon.

Yes folks for those of us who prefer physical books to Kindles Deadite Press an imprint of Bizarro publisher, the aptly named, Eraserhead press to pick up the remains of Leisure's self destruction and make as Charlie Sheen would say "Tin cans into piles of gold." Bullet Through Your Face and its companion collection Brain Cheese Buffet were Deadite's coming out party of books and come out they did.

Right of the bat this book goes full throttle into the sick stuff, Ever Nat and its description of dirty, horny rednecks will make you sick. The Salt Diviner, will cleanse your pallet but only for a short while because the twist is a knockout. Refrigerator Full Of Sperm and its deliriously perverse character Micha Hays and his deviant sexual exploits and an even crazier narrator(In one part of the story he stops and goes on a rant about Bill Clinton) will lead you straight to the nearest waste can and heave yourself silly. These three novellas are as nasty as they get folks and for those of us who like their horror with a vomit bag and a side of humor will love this. All others steer clear this isn't Stephen King, it's Good Ole Ed Lee and he doesn't play nice.

Deadite has gone on to publish more books(Clickers 1&2, Urban Gothic, Population Zero to name a few) and folks let me tell ya you won't find a more eager to please horror publisher than this. These guys go all the way to please us true horror fans and you wont be able to punt anything down. They are as this book suggests like a "Bullet Through Your Face"

Steven Shroyer

I've read some hardcore horror before...but as of to date...ths is the grossest most disturbing short read I've encountered! The first story "Ever Nat" was so graphic in depiction it made "Deliverance" seem like a Disney story!

I grew up in the south and I liked this book as much as I did "The Black Train".

This book was awesomely gory and gruesome. I loved it, and would recommend it to anyone who likes to be totally creeped out. Seriously a good read.

This was one of my first Ed Lee books, I have been on a roll since, with this I also bought the big head, and the house / pig ALL OF IT WAS FANTASTIC ! If you like horror mixed with sex that can be disturbing , funny and erotic then I think you would like whatever this author writes, I have bought 3 others since the othe 3 - If you read any Lee I dont think you will be disappointed if you like dirty discusting stuff - enjoy

I love me some Edward lee! I feel this collection is the best of the 3 books hes put out so far. Lots of things going on here in these stories. Gore, sex, and a whole lo tof F'd up situations!! buy and enjoy!!

Edward Lee is one of the modern day kings of splatterpunk horror guaranteed to shock most readers; and the three stories in the collection will do just that.

'Ever Nat' - is a tale of kidnapping turned sordid enough to make you wish it never happens to you as one man must do what he can to survive. 'The Salt Diviner' - is a supernatural story of a fortune teller and the affects he has on a young couple. 'The Refrigerator Full of Sperm' - featuring a red-neck town, a sex obsessed police officer and an alien conspiracy you won't believe.

These three stories all offer something different enough to make them all interesting to read and are fast enough paced to make sure you finish the collection as quickly as possible. Whilst the redneck speak can get annoying this doesn't ruin any of the stories as they are sick and twisted enough to entertain you. Another collection go Edward Lee tales NOT for the faint hearted (or faint stomached).

4/5

Edward Lee has long held a reputation as the King of Hardcore Horror, and this collection of novellas serves up definitive proof. This horror is indeed hardcore, in more ways than one, bringing together three of Lee's most controversial, over-the-top tales.

"Ever Nat," which chronicles the fallout when a bored businessman picks up a sexy backwoods hitchhiker, has gained much notoriety in the years following its initial publication, and rightfully so; it's one of the grimmest, grimiest things Lee's ever written, a non-stop barrage of depravity capped with a downbeat finale. Not for the squeamish (that goes without saying with this material), but a must-read for the dedicated Edward Lee fan.

"The Salt Diviner" is the story of a compulsive gambler and his long-suffering fiancee who find the answer to their prayers in an ancient Sumerian fortune teller. It's a more playful story, illustrating Lee's penchant for queasy humor, yet doesn't skimp on the grue.

The final novella, "The Refrigerator Full of Sperm," details the nefarious reproductive plans of an alien race in rural Maryland. This slab of "splatterspunk" works as a black gross-out comedy, pulling out all the stops with its misogynistic, amoral, priapic protagonist Micah Hays. One can almost picture the demented grin on Lee's face as he continually ups the deviant ante with one extended anecdote of sexual misadventure after another.

Kudos to Deadite Press for making Lee's hard-to-find back catalog in affordable, attractive editions and giving splat-fiction fans everywhere reason to rejoice.

If you've read Edward Lee's mass market paperbacks, you haven't even touched what Lee can produce in his writing. This collection of three short stories will gross you out to the point of possibly putting the book down at some points, but like a train wreck, you just have to watch and keep going. 'Ever Nat' takes you on a journey of a man who picks up a female hitchhiker, but when the tables are turned what can the man endure to stay alive? 'The Salt-Diviner' will take you to the basement of a couple, and the completely debased actions they complete with a homeless quadriplegic they keep chained up in the basement. And finally, 'The Refrigerator Full of Sperm' delivers some of the sickest and most perverse storytelling I have ever read of Lee's, and let's just leave it at that. Definitely a must read for splatterspunk fans, but don't forget your barf bag for parts of 'Refrigerator', fair warning if you aren't ready for it.