Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 3
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Angel Leigh McCoy
About this listen
It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic.
- “So Sings the Siren”, by Annie Neugebauer, takes us onto a dark fantasy stage for a one-night-only performance of mythological torture.
- Ryan Harding’s “Junk” gets right to the hardcore stuff with the ultimate dick-pic horror tale.
- Robert Levy’s “The Cenacle” is a literary cemetery feast you may have a hard time stomaching (Tums won’t save you).
- Luciano Marano made his first pro sell when he sold “Burnt” to DOA III, and the tale has its own fiery fetishistic twist.
- Tim Waggoner’s “Til Death” is Lovecraftian post-apocalypse horror at its absolute best.
- “Letter from Hell” comes with that special delivery you only get from Matt Shaw.
- Dani Brown gets down and very dirty in her “Theatrum Mortuum”, which may be the most extreme thing you hear all year.
- In “Bernadette”, Ramiro Perez de Pereda gets medieval in his tale of a djinn summoned by a desperate priest.
- Brian Hodge takes you on a trip to Mexico you will never forget in “West of Matamoros, North of Hell”.
- Bracken MacLeod’s “Reprising Her Role” takes us behind the scenes of a porno snuff film for a gut-wrenching reprisal and unexpected bonus footage.
- A real-life death threat inspired Doug Ford’s “The Watcher”, and we think it shows.
- “Scratching from the Outer Darkness” showcases Tim Curran’s descriptive prowess and gives you a tale of hardcore Cthulhu mythos.
- Brace yourself when Adam Howe’s “Foreign Bodies” takes you deep into the bowels of a nasty abyss.
- Sean Patrick Hazlett introduces us to “Adramelech”, an ancient demon with a taste for broiled children.
- Scott Smith (A Simple Plan and The Ruins) wraps up this year’s fat package of the hard stuff in a big bloody bow with “The Dogs”. The canines in this tale are not "man’s best friend" variety, nor are they woman’s besties, as you will see.
- And many more!
Thanks for coming along into this year’s heart of hardcore darkness. We hope to see you on the other side.
©2018 Comet Press (P)2018 Comet PressWhat listeners say about Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 3
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- Adilah Y.
- 09-06-2020
Excellent as always
Fair bit of sci-fi, Tree Huggers was a bit meh, but all else excellent as per usual
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Cannibal
- 09-05-2019
If you’re a sensitive wee flower with a nervous disposition... move along. Nothing to see here!
On the other hand... if you’re a depraved fiend like myself, look no further for your next read. Packed with explicit sex, offensive language and Themes. Plus plenty of gratuitous violence. It does just as advertised on the box. Each of the volumes: 1;2 and 3, are equally capable of scratching even the deepest horror itch.
Daniel Inwood. New Zealand.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Ben
- 16-04-2019
I guess 'Hardcore' should have given it away
Haven't read any kind of horror for years and stumbled across this more or less by accident. I loved horror as a teenager, even when the nightmares came and eventually went. Still do, as a matter of fact. But I'm ignorant of what contemporary stuff is available, which is why this anthology caught my attention.
It has plenty to offer: mutilation, humiliation, torture, scat porn, bestiality, snuff, cannibalism. Plenty to fascinate and repel. There was one problem, it didn't leave me scared.
For me, I can only conclude that this particular niche genre has too much of the same old extremes. Some of it I glossed over, some of it I engaged in for the fascination of it, but the imagery seemed tired, tawdry, even the points where disgust made me skip forward. That said a few stories stood out as original and interesting for me. 'The Senacle' started well and ended satisfactorily. 'The Better Part of Drowning'was my definite favourite, in its own way reminiscent of the tone and delivery of Donald Kingsbury's 'Courtship Rite,' one of my most thumbed SciFi books. I thought 'Burnt' was by far the best executed of the unashamedly descriptive offerings, with 'The Maw' running a close second.
As a blind person myself, the trope of the blind hearing what others hear not as some kind of compensation is one that refuses to die the death long due. We don't, and we don't go around feeling people's faces either. I was sighing 45 seconds into 'Scratching from the Outer Darkness' as a result, though I accept it might not have spoiled it for others. Query why a genie from a Basque witch's spellbook would choose early modern English to speak to medieval Spaniards. Finally, as a reader of thecrimelibrary.com in the late 90s, I read Albert Fish's letter to Mrs Budd (Bud? Budd? Can't remember). 'a Letter from Hell'is, sadly, a slightly expanded paraphrase of it, including the signature sentence. Very disappointing.
So an unremarkable pack in the middle, with four outstandings and three complete floaters. My opinion only. Will I pull down the other volumes in the series? It didn't scare me, but probably, actually.
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