Depraved [Mass Market Paperback]

Bryan Smith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2009

Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices...and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town's traps. Some will be held for their captors' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from the curse that befell the Kincher family. For more than a century the Kinchers have been changing, mutating, becoming gradually less human. And at the center of it all lies the dark secret, the malignant evil that controls Hopkins Bend and has made its residents truly...DEPRAVED.

Editorial Reviews

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"DEPRAVED lives up to its name in the most brutal and visceral way. Sort of like a roller-coaster ride... but with battery acid and razor blades on the handlebars. Smith's most effective and merciless work to date!" --Ronald Kelly, author of FEAR, HELL HOLLOW,and MIDNIGHT GRINDING & OTHER TWILIGHT TERRORS

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"Here's an author exploding onto the genre!"

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Leisure Books; Original edition (October 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0843962925
• ISBN-13: 978-0843962925
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #757,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Oh my god! That did not just happen!!!", December 17, 2009

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Rhonda Wilson "SandDanz" (New Albany, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Depraved (Mass Market Paperback)

Bryan Smith's latest novel, DEPRAVED, takes place in the backwoods town known as Hopkins Bend. Anyone passing through tends to not make it back out and most don't even survive. The town is full of inbred cannibalistic rednecks who tend to rape, torture, and/or eat their victims... not necessarily in that order. Those "lucky" enough to survive and not get killed are put to work in a special strip club that is also within the town of Hopkins Bend. And what is it with the Kincher family? They appear to not be quite human. It looks like they are half-man/half-monster. Have they been undergone some kind of mutation? Will any of the outsiders to Hopkins Bend be able to escape or find a way to stop the townsfolk or will these vicious acts continue to go on forever?

DEPRAVED is graphic, foul, smutty, trashy, and probably everything your mama told you never to read as a kid, but that's what makes it so great! Backwoods towns have always been depicted as creepy and if you add in rednecks, well... that just makes them even scarier! Just Kidding! Well, unless they're cannibalistic as Smith portrays them! That's the key. Smith adds in the twist of cannibalism and mutations to make these inbred rednecks be extremely scary, not to mention that they are so depraved. There is also one particular chapter in the book where Smith touches on the "bizarro". I won't spoil anything for you, but it's probably one of the most intense sex scenes I've ever read in a horror book. It's horrifically foul, but I loved every minute of it despite the voices in my head screaming "Oh my god! That did not just happen!!!". As far as I'm concerned, Smith has out done himself with DEPRAVED and I hope that he continues along this line of writing in the future. This is a must for fans of extreme horror. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Contains: Adult Language, Adult Situations, Violence, Torture, Gore, Rape, Graphic Sex, Cannibalism

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Backwoods Horror With A Twist, October 25, 2009

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Erik Smith "ronin57" (North Ridgeville, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Depraved (Mass Market Paperback)

Depraved is a perfect title for Bryan Smith's latest novel. It also could have been called Survivor. While there are plenty of depraved acts from the backwoods denizens of this book, it is the attempts to survive made by the victems of those denizens, that propel the plot. Everything takes place (I believe) within 24 hours, and those hours are packed with more violence, gore and depravity than you can shake a blood covered stick at. Smith also gives us a supernatural element that makes Depraved more than just a common cannibal redneck story. Demons, sex slaves, mutant freaks, flesh-eating backwoods clans and ordinary people doing ANYTHING to survive. What else can you ask for? How about one of the most over-the-top sex scenes ever put to paper?
Come on, you know you want to read it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gross, gross, gross, July 6, 2011

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A. Lavoie "swampdonkey" (NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Depraved (Mass Market Paperback)

I was surprised by some of the low reviews for this book. If you like Gore, vicious, gross, depraved, sick stories than this is for you. If you like J. F. Gonzales, Wrath James White, Jack Ketchum-You'll like Bryan Smith. Great, fast moving story of people getting stuck in a small town and their struggle to escape. Sometimes you do not know which characters you should feel sorry for. Definitely worth the read.