Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood [Hardcover]

Jeffrey Thomas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2004

Jeffrey Thomas returns with his second Delirium collection, this time featuring 8 very bizarre erotic horror stories, including the original novelette "Damask". This collection showcases why Jeffrey Thomas is one of the rising stars of the genre. From fan favorite "A Puppet Show For No One" to the offbeat "Can You Pass Strother's Love Test" to the over the top "Afterword: My Sexual Exploits", this is a must-have for serious Thomas fans and anyone interested in discovering a truly original talent at his best.

This is a limited, signed hardcover produced in only a 250-copy print run.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 153 pages
• Publisher: Delirium Books; Limited edition (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1929653530
• ISBN-13: 978-1929653539
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,772,017 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I am the author of such science fiction/horror novels as DEADSTOCK (finalist for the John W. Campbell Award), BLUE WAR, HEALTH AGENT, MONSTROCITY (finalist for the Bram Stoker Award), THE FALL OF HADES, LETTERS FROM HADES, UGLY HEAVEN/BEAUTIFUL HELL (coauthored with Carlton Mellick III), THOUGHT FORMS, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE DREAM DEALERS. My short story collections include PUNKTOWN, VOICES FROM PUNKTOWN, PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY (coauthored with Scott Thomas), NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, UNHOLY DIMENSIONS, VOICES FROM HADES, THIRTEEN SPECIMENS, DOOMSDAYS, and AAAIIIEEE!!!. Stories of mine have been reprinted in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES. Though I consider Vietnam (my wife's place of origin) my second home, I am a resident of ye olde Massachusetts. Visit my blog at www.JeffreyEThomas.com.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Erotic, innovative, astonishing, and original., July 14, 2005

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This review is from: Honey Is Sweeter Than Blood (Hardcover)

5.5" x 8.5" hardcover, limited numbered edition of 250 copies signed by Thomas. 154 pages.

Back in 1983, horror literature underwent a radical facelift; Stephen King saw the future of the genre, and his name was Clive Barker. In contrast to King's blue-collar, sometimes even pedestrian, mass-market writing, Barker was a breath of fresh air: erotic, innovative, astonishing, original. The same descriptors apply to Jeffrey Thomas.

Thomas' world is populated with sexual predators and fumbling lovers, with normal men who find perverse pleasure in limbless women and naive puppets who enact one of the greatest love stories ever told, with gripping reality and light-hearted fantasy.

Whether you travel through the looking glass to a place where a monstrous version of you is equally bored by his day job or to a future where young girls lust after "grandbabes" ('mature' older stars), the eight stories herein are sure to bring a wicked smile to your face and quickened pace to your heart. From one extreme to the next, Thomas carefully holds your hand as you make the transitions. And you are, as they say, in good hands.

Forget waiting for Barker's next short story collection; Thomas offers you a new book of Blood that is more than capable of filling the void.