The House (Paperback)

by Edward Lee (Author)
Key Phrases: animal movies, Sheriff Funk, New York, Leonard D'arava (more...)

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Product Description
TWO OF EDWARD LEE'S MOST INFAMOUS NOVELLAS IN ONE BOOK! THE PIG: You know, the traditional tale of a man with big city dreams and how one wrong deal can put you in the woods filming porn with junkie whores, sexual freaks, psycho mobsters and, oh yeah...a pig. THE HOUSE: Thirty years ago a lot of very bad things happened in the way out in the woods. Things that scarred this house forever. Now Melvin is there to investigate the so-called haunted house. He doesn't believe. But he soon will as his dreams smash head first into the memories of a man sentenced to film the most atrocious sex acts imaginable and to experience the nightmare all over again.

About the Author
Edward Lee has had over thirty books published in the horror and suspense field, including Flesh Gothic, Messenger and City Infernal. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee, and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies, including The Best American Mystery Stories of 2000, Pocket s Hot Blood series, and the award-wining 999. Several of his novels have recently sold translation rights to Germany and Spain. His movie, Header, will be available on DVD in mid-2007. Meanwhile, City Infernal, Messenger, Ghouls, The Bighead, and Family Tradition have been optioned for film. Upcoming mass-market novels include House Infernal, Golemesque, and The Order of the Scarlet Nuns, while he is currently at work on a limited-edition hardcore horror novel entitled Minotauress. Lee lives on Florida's St. Pete Beach. Visit him online at: edwardleeonline.com myspace.com/edwardleeonline

Product Details

• Paperback: 236 pages
• Publisher: Necro Publications; 1st edition (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1889186716
• ISBN-13: 978-1889186719
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #209,518 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two sickly twisted chapbooks in one, August 26, 2007

By	Schtinky "Schtinky" (California) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

The Pig: If you're faint of heart, put this book down now! 'The Pig' is a viscous tale of junkies, bestiality, sodomy, scat, necrophilia, and snuff ... Edward Lee at his grossest. Filmmaker wanna-be Leonard, after a horrible stint in prison, steals his previous boss's filmmaking equipment and heads to New York to make it big. He just needs four thousand dollars, and winds out borrowing from the wrong man, mob-boss Rocco. When he can't pay back the loan, he's beaten and divorced from one of his testicles, and forced to work for the mob as their filmmaker, creating masterpieces of animal-human carnality, brutality, gore, and much worse. Things culminate to a mystical and demonic ending when a pig is brought in by Rocco for Leonard's films. Warning: this piece is very graphic. On another note, Leonard's original piece that he wished to make into his first film, titled 'The Confessor' is in this story, and it's a very good piece of work. I wonder if it really is an early piece of Lee's.

The House: While fine as a stand-alone story, 'The House' is actually a sequel to 'The Pig'. It's 23 years later, after the incidents Leonard went through at the mob's hideaway house. Introvert Melvin is assigned to write a story for his newspaper on the "old haunted house", and his glamorously sexy, yet ditzy, young stepmother Gwyneth travels with him. Despite the stories he's heard from his boss, a drugged out hooker, and even the county sheriff, Melvin still doesn't believe in haunted houses. Until things begin to go terribly wrong for both him and Gwyneth. It's not just images that begin to haunt Melvin, but bizarre urges and radio broadcasts from the 1970's. Then, when Melvin notices Gwyneth going off the deep end in the most depraved ways, he understands that there's more to the tales of haunting than meets the eye. But is it too late for the two of them to break away from The House's grasp?

'The Pig' definitely out-grossed 'The House', in my humble opinion, but 'The House' contained more creeping "look over your shoulder" horror than 'The Pig'. These are not stories for the weaker constitutions; these are tales worthy of the gross out readings at the horror conventions. You won't be licking your lips after reading this novel, you'll be washing your hands over and over again. Gross and gory, Edward Lee delivers what he does best, hardcore horror in a handbag filled with scat. Enjoy!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A quamishly written,diabolical piece of definitive hardcore horror!!!, June 20, 2008

By	Horror Freek (Florida) - See all my reviews

As extreme as the 70's could possibly get!
This novella, deamed fiction, has an explict underground reality that an unlucky few could have possibly experienced(to a certain point). Great creativity and great research into a very grisly and sadistic way of life. The sequel fits like a puzzle despite an 8 year gap in the writing. Absolute demoralization to anything pure and holy. Lee hold's nothing back in the conclusion of this story, it's sure to leave a sour taste in your mouth as well as your stomach. An elaboratly sculpted illusion of vulgar obsenity. This imagery should flashback for a long time to come. Be warned and enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome, Gruesome , Gruesome! I loved IT!, October 3, 2008

By	K. Grifka "graphic horror fan" (Michigan) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are a Lee fan then u know what his style is like.I loved the book.I think I liked the house better than the pig.Both are good reads tho!! Not for the weak stomach....