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    (Mass Market Paperback)

    • Pub. Date: October 2009
    • 320pp
    • Sales Rank: 297,583
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      • Pub. Date: October 2009
      • Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company, Incorporated
      • Format: Mass Market Paperback, 320pp
      • Sales Rank: 297,583

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      Award-winning author Everson's latest novel fails to live up to the reputation that two Bram Stoker Awards earned him. Twenty-five years after a bloody massacre, the Castle House Lodge has reopened as an asylum, with an unusual group of patients. Dr. Barry Rockford, a controversial MIT geneticist, has recruited some local thugs to abduct young women. Early on, the reader learns that Rockford's experiments involve impregnating his captives as part of a Satanic ritual. His activities initially fly beneath the radar, until new Castle Point Police Officer Christy Sorensen learns that a neighboring jurisdiction has experienced a rash of disappearances. Sorensen's inquiries lead her to the amateur sleuthing of bicyclist David Shale, who earns himself a job at the asylum as a handyman. At times Everson's prose is so over the top it's laughable, but it's the stock characters and situations that sink this average novel.
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      Demonic Tale For All "Extreme" Horror Loversby SandDanz

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      November 26, 2009: David Shale has come to Castle Point to stay with his aunt and train for the Olympics. While out riding, Shale gets knocked off his bike by a distracted police officer, Christy Sorenson, in her car. She rushes him to the nearest building, Castle House Lodge, which a century ago was an exclusive resort hotel. Upon entrance they are told it has been renovated into a mental hospital for pregnant women. Later that night, Shale goes to a bar to ease his pain from the accident, and meets a girl who later ends up missing. Actually, LOTS of girls end up missing! Both Sorenson and Shale are wondering if it's a coincidence that Castle House Lodge has just happened to get renovated at the same time as the disappearances started taking place.

      Once again, Everson has written a wonderfully erotic demonic twisted tale. He begins his story by giving the readers a chance to get to know the main characters and get emotionally attached, and then throws them into the nightmare in the latter half of the book. Everson's brutal depictions of the killings throughout the book will turn some readers off, but for the true horror and gore lovers out there, they will crave every last drop of blood. In true Everson fashion, The 13th also has sexual scenes and demonic possession. This book crosses over many sub-genres of horror in order to fulfill the needs of all horror readers. Highly Recommended!

      Contains: Violence, Gore, Rape, Adult Language, Adult Situations

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      You Get What You Pay For...by Anonymous

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      October 31, 2009: I picked this book up because the cover said the writer had won an award on a previous novel and the plot was interesting. It was cheap, so I don't know why I was expecting a quality read. Based on the reviews of his other books, I am sure any of the said reviewers would gladly lynch me for this..but, the book was only "ok". The storyline was interesting, yet still somewhat predictable. Character development is dismissed in lieu of gratuitous cursing and sexual descriptions. The lack of attention to detail is excruciating (if you pay attention to things like that)...two examples that come immediately to mind are: 1) the eye color of one of the main characters is at first described as "intensely brown" 3 or so times, then suddenly halfway through the book they are described as "intensely blue" a couple of times, and then are again described as "intensely brown" before the book ends...2) another character's robe is assigned a particularly detailed description ("it trailed low to her ankles") and in the scene that follows her robe is suddenly a mini-dress. Another character wastes time printing some information from a webpage before barely making an escape only to have the documents never resurface. How do the editors not catch such blatant continuity errors?

      SO basically...it's alright for a cheap, quick, trashy read, but if lack of attention to detail and dropped plot-points irritate you then STEER CLEAR!