Red Wet Dirt [Paperback]

Nicholas Grabowsky (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009

Introducing three short stories & three novellas: While on vacation, a young man's fiancé becomes a heart-collecting Yuletide Thing on Christmas Eve. Get stuck in traffic when The Freeway Reaper claims another soul. A suburban family is plagued by a horde of were-rats. Special Agent Sam Cross, mortally wounded by a Jamaican specter, journeys into a psychedelic Festival of Fallen Souls in search of a supernatural healer whose lover's touch brings in contrast instant death. A legendary flesh eater arrives on the shores of an ancient Minoan city, infecting its population, beginning with a teenage boy's father who's summoned by the pompous king to become an undead garbage disposal. In Red Afterworld, an ex juvenile preacher gets his childhood wish of becoming a vampire when he's recruited into a male-only biker fraternity and finds himself one of the few survivors of global nuclear war, discovers a time portal in the Arizona desert with the hope of saving the world, and finds true love. Including extra minor works from the author's youth and the short screenplay Cutting Edges, the basis for an upcoming film and the author's directorial debut, Red Wet Dirt is to die for and is destined to become a classic way beyond its genre!

Product Details

• Paperback: 392 pages
• Publisher: BLACK BED SHEETS BOOKS (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0982253001
• ISBN-13: 978-0982253007
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,917,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A trip you won't forget, February 13, 2011

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This review is from: Red Wet Dirt (Paperback)

REVIEWED BY THE FUNKY WEREPIG


Even in a world of the horrifying, weird and fantastical, where our nightmares dominate our imagination, Nicholas Grabowsky has always stood out as one of horror's few true individuals. No one does things the way Grabowsky does and his collection RED WET DIRT is no exception.

Collections are nothing new. We've all read the ones for Poe and Lovecraft. We rush out when our favorite best sellers finally release their short stories in one handy book. To be honest, with the presses the way they are now, almost any writer with a dozen or so pieces can put out their own collections.

But how many of them have a full fledged screenplay mixed in with their short stories and novella selections? How about a poem saved from sixth grade or an ode to a squished pet hamster named Loo written back in high school? Name one collection that has a letter that was sent to Playboy about the dilemma of being born with two penises AND the actual response from the Playboy Advisor.

This book is almost 370 pages because Grabowsky doesn't leave a thing out. The good, the bad and the ugly of his entire career is here. It leaves you with the knowledge that from the very beginning he wasn't just a guy who enjoyed writing- he never had a choice. Nick Grabowsky is one of those rare people who were born to create horror. Period.

As for the stories themselves, they're creepy, haunting and in most cases very strange. His mind goes places most of ours wouldn't have created in 100 tries. `The Freeway Reaper' is a great example of that. I got lost in the twists and layers of changing subplots but by the end, it all tied together and I closed the book for the night overwhelmed. His tale of cursed love `The Yuletide Thing' is almost stream of consciousness storytelling drenched in pure emotion. Grabowsky speaks to us as if we're in the chair across from him. We've been where he has been and when his dark demons claim victory with endings we hoped wouldn't come, we understand.

Maybe that is Grabowsky's greatest attribute; He never hesitates to wear his heart on his sleeve even when he's scaring the hell out of us.

If you're already a fan, you'll love this collection. It represents absolutely everything from Grabowsky's diverse talents and then some. If you haven't read his work before, you're missing one of the most underrated horror writers of our time. There's a reason the biggest names in the biz praise him.

There's only one Nicholas Grabowsky. And RED WET DIRT does a perfect job defining him.