16 stories of erotic horror from Bram Stoker Award winner Edo van Belkom, with a foreword by Michael Rowe. Stories include BLOOD BAIT, STRANGE ATTRACTION, LETTING GO and THE TERMINATRIX.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Billed as "tales of erotic horror," this collection of 16 stories shows a versatile Canadian writer struggling with only modest success to overcome the limitations of a very narrow subgenre. In the book's best selection, "Letting Go," Death comes as a lover to a terminal AIDS patient, whose human companion expresses his love most selflessly by giving him up to the ecstasy of that union. The poignancy and sensuality of this story set it apart from the others, most of which work adolescent squeamishness and insecurity about sexual matters into tales of physical horror. "Yours Truly, Jackie the Stripper" is a protracted examination of macho male attitudes towards female sexuality that ends with a grisly (and thoroughly improbable) castration scene. "Teeth" is yet another variation on the hackneyed theme of the vagina dentata. "Bust," in which a victim of a grotesque breast augmentation metes out grisly retribution to her cosmetic surgeon, is one of several stories in which sex is a means of achieving spectacularly visceral revenge. To his credit, Stoker winner van Belkom (Death Drives a Semi) keeps the stories relatively brief, and his tongue mostly in cheek. His sexual scenarios build up to effective, sardonic twist endings, and the majority of stories show women empowered by their sexuality, rather than playing the victim role so common in horror fiction. Still, readers may find themselves snickering as much as shivering at these dark sexual fantasies. Agent, Joshua Bilmes. (Aug.)May 28).
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Revenge on Men,
By Pam Will (Cary, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Six Inch Spikes (Paperback)
I can't believe that this author is a man. Some of the things that he has the women in his stories do to exact revenge against the men in their lives definately reads like a female author out to settle a score against men. Either that or a man that has met some very mean women.Regardless, this book kept me laughing with lots of evil grins. Don't let the "erotic" turn you off -- I don't feel that anything in this book is extremely erotic in nature given the tone that it's written in. I've read more explicit scenes in modern day romance books. Woman who read this can live variously though the woman in these stories who exact revenge on the men that have abused them. Men who read this might think twice before messing with the little ladies. Regardless, these stories are a perfect read especially after a long hard day.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
