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5.0 out of 5 stars
DEAD CAT'S BOUNCING YET AGAIN!, July 20, 2006
This review is from: Dead Cat Traveling Circus of Wonders and Miracle Medicine Show (Hardcover)
Dead Cat's Traveling Circus of Wonders and Miracle Medicine Show...And if you think the title is a mouthful, just wait until you see some of the story titles! I didn't have the pleasure of reading Dead Cats Bouncing so this is my intro, and what an intro it is! Take some of the finest horror writers around, both newcomers and established talents, and have them pen their stories about a rather straggly looking dead cat...who's very much alive...but still dead. Got the picture? First the roll call of writers contributing to this latest collection: Tim Lebbon, Gary A Braunbeck, Brian Hodge, Jeffrey Thomas, Linda D. Addison, Gerard Houarner, Trey R. Barker, Jack Haringa, Michael T. Huyck, Jr., Garrett Peck, P.D.Cacek, Michelle Scalise, Robert Rhine, Mark McLaughlin,Wrath James White, and Aaron Worley. Add to that art from GAK, Alan M. Clark, Erik Wilson, and Chad Savage, and this is one thrill ride of a book.
Dead Cat's Circus can't be, no, it won't be classified to any particular genre. That would not do it justice and the dead cat would not approve. Horror, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Adventure, and loads of comedy...it's all here and wrapped in a great hardcover package. The Dead Cat basically bounces from era to era, traversing time and space, generally wreaking havoc.
"Puss in Boots" finds the Dead Cat in Paris during Louie the XIV's reign and he becomes quite the swashbuckling feline and takes on a mean old Ogre with his usual, ahem...wit.
"Sweet Oblivion" takes place in Hell as a trio of souls, Patrick, Eleanor, and Wally, spend their days raising food for hulking, fat demons. When the Dead Cat bounces into hell, it gives the trio hope that they can find a way out.
Speaking of protracted titles, there is "Dead Cat Matches Wits with Ratnarokh, the Ultimate, Sentient Super-computer, on the Blood Red Planet of the Porn Bots" With just a few meows and purrs, Dead Cat soon has the super-computer overheating and ready to explode in its feeble attempts to analyze this strange creature.
Perhaps the most gruesome story is "Bounce Back" which finds Dead Cat trying to figure out why other creatures don't bounce back from the dead like he did. He takes to watching a man in a dingy apartment as he murders and beheads several hookers until he picks the wrong hooker to tangle with. Perhaps Dead Cat can see if this new meat puppet will bounce back!
Dead Cat's Circus is simply a blast to read. Like a jam session, this is a fantastic group of writers having one heck of a great time. Worth every penny!
Reviewed by Tim Janson
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Sittin on the corner tellin lies..., June 19, 2007
This review is from: Dead Cat Traveling Circus of Wonders and Miracle Medicine Show (Hardcover)
For what started as a simple and very strange idea from a rather strange individual, Dead cat has evolved into an interesting annomoly. Here, like with Dead Cats Bouncing, we get to see him treated as a folk hero of old. The feeling while reading this is like you're sitting on the porch of the local five and dime with all these old fellers n ladies tellin lies on Dead Cat like he was John Henry or something. Each story has its own voice and each author is allowed to shine in their own way, using dead cat to express their veiw of this twisted little world of our or just have some fun. The price can be a bit frightening at first, but its the best $45 I've ever had spent on me.
Oh, and you get to poke Nyarlaothotep with a stick. Don't worry, he likes it. Dead Cat said so.
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