- Paperback: 173 pages
- Publisher: Darktales Publications (April 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1930997086
- ISBN-13: 978-1930997080
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 13.1 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 290 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,063,212 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
Book Description
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.
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Revenge on Men, Jun 19 2001
By Pam Will - Published on Amazon.com
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.
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