Dread In The Beast [Paperback]

Charlee Jacob (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1999

This is Charlee's first collection of fiction. Sixteen beautifully brutal tales of hardcore horror. Ten hard-to-find reprints and six new stories all weaving a poetic narrative though horrific landscape of mutilation, darkness and despair.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"16 beautifully brutal tales of hardcore horror" that bring images of the first CROW movie, the desolate, gray cityscape with its dark corners and ghosts. -- C. Dennis Moore, Inetreviews

. . . direct, graphic, and often brutal [the author has] insight into the more twisted passageways of the human mind . . . -- Don D'Ammassa, SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE

. . . exquisitely beautiful and brutal short fiction . . . Jacob, a poet of uncompromising and innovative talents, has produced a near-perfect book. . . -- Todd French

This is . . . primo, important new horror fiction more daring than anything you've likely read. -- Edward Lee, author of CREEKERS, THE CHOSEN, INCUBI, SUCCUBI, THE BIGHEAD and PORTRAIT OF THE PSYCOPATH AS A YOUNG WOMAN

What distinguishes Jacob . . . is her lyrical, often poetic prose and her Grand Guignol sense of gruesome spectacle. -- HorrorOnline.com

From the Publisher

It has garnered much praise and was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for the novella "Dread in the Beast".

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Product Details

• Paperback: 213 pages
• Publisher: Necro Publications; 1 edition (March 1, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 1889186112
• ISBN-13: 978-1889186115
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,095,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jacob is brilliant, August 29, 2001

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ed cowell - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dread In The Beast (Paperback)

Charlee Jacob revels in beautiful descriptions of gore,and vivid characters that seem as real as anyone you've ever met.
All the stories here are wonderful,particularly "Fire." This
lady knows how to write.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True Horror!, December 25, 2000

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Glenda June Woodrum, editor genrEZONE.com (Athens, Georgia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dread In The Beast (Paperback)

This collection of short stories comes from the vivid imagination of one of the best horror writers in the country. Charlee's work is horrific, extreme and viceral. This is a book you can't put down once you begin, and will give even the most jaded horror reader chills!

Warning, this book is _not_ for the faint of heart!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Charlee is a poet!, December 4, 2003

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Hertzan Chimera (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dread In The Beast (Paperback)

It is that simple. Charlee Jacob is a poet. I have read her novel THIS SYMBIOTIC FASCINATION (which seemed a little over-edited) but this collection of brutal twisted nasty delightful short stories blows that out of the water.

DREAD IN THE BEAST is a sustained onslaught of psycho-erotic imagery enough to have you racing to the bathroom to throw up your supper, only to return to the book a third, fourth time, puke still dribbling down your chin as you read.

Unstoppable atrocities and knife-edge narrative abound in this volume of physical and mental sickness. It is simply a must read book of the highest quality.