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A review by casey_zi
Deadly After Dark by Michael Garrett, Jeff Gelb
4.0
3.75
I picked this book up for $2 at a dollar store. It looks like a trashy pulp horror/erotica novel (and it is, sort of) but I found it surprisingly enjoyable.
There are 14 stories in this book. The notable ones:
Mr. Torso:
The saga of a serial killer who cuts off the limbs of his victims, impregnates them and sells the babies. The juxtaposition of the two voices narrating the story, one an exaggerated dumb hillbilly stereotype and the other an intellectual obsessed with philosophy, is both jarring and memorable.
Give it to me, baby:
A painfully lonely man falls in love with a phone-sex operator. This one is more sad that anything else.
Immaterial Girl:
A girl who can change her appearance into anyone her client desires commands a high price.
The Last Client:
A young escort decides it's time to leave the business. It's her last night, but her client won't let her leave.
A Moment of Ecstasy:
One couple's encounter with another during a night of "swinging" turns into a deadly game.
Reincarnal:
The reincarnation of a murder victim hunts down the reincarnation of her killer through her clairvoyant dreams.
Suffer Kate:
A guy tries to save his friend, a man who can only get off by hanging/suffocating himself.
Sex Starved:
An obese man marries a woman who refuses to sleep with him until he loses a lot of weight. Eventually, though, his hunger for food overtakes his hunger for anything else.
The others are either just bizarre, middling, or both, but overall, worth the read and I'll be looking for other books in this series.
I picked this book up for $2 at a dollar store. It looks like a trashy pulp horror/erotica novel (and it is, sort of) but I found it surprisingly enjoyable.
There are 14 stories in this book. The notable ones:
Mr. Torso:
The saga of a serial killer who cuts off the limbs of his victims, impregnates them and sells the babies. The juxtaposition of the two voices narrating the story, one an exaggerated dumb hillbilly stereotype and the other an intellectual obsessed with philosophy, is both jarring and memorable.
Give it to me, baby:
A painfully lonely man falls in love with a phone-sex operator. This one is more sad that anything else.
Immaterial Girl:
A girl who can change her appearance into anyone her client desires commands a high price.
The Last Client:
A young escort decides it's time to leave the business. It's her last night, but her client won't let her leave.
A Moment of Ecstasy:
One couple's encounter with another during a night of "swinging" turns into a deadly game.
Reincarnal:
The reincarnation of a murder victim hunts down the reincarnation of her killer through her clairvoyant dreams.
Suffer Kate:
A guy tries to save his friend, a man who can only get off by hanging/suffocating himself.
Sex Starved:
An obese man marries a woman who refuses to sleep with him until he loses a lot of weight. Eventually, though, his hunger for food overtakes his hunger for anything else.
The others are either just bizarre, middling, or both, but overall, worth the read and I'll be looking for other books in this series.