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 enlarge | Authors: Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon, Edward Lee
Publisher: Leisure Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 85592
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 310
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0843958235
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.838738
EAN: 9780843958232
ASIN: 0843958235
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Condition: Brand New. Shipped from UK Mainland. Delivery is usually 4 - 5 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail.
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 Poor July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Three fantastic authors. Three poor stories. I really looked forward to this book as I love all three authors and I had read everything else Laymon had written so the chance of a new story seemed promising. I have to say I wasn't impressed. All three stories were slow and pointless. I just couldn't get into this book at all.
 Great! April 26, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to this book very much as I love Richard Laymon. I have also read a few Jack Ketchum bokks and enjoyed them, too.
The premise is very interesting, all three authors - Richard Laymon, Edward Lee, Jack Ketchum - have to write a story about a man who walks into a place of work and begind shooting people.
The first is around 100 pages long and is wriiten by Richard Laymon. I give this 5 stars it's easily the best story in the book and it's worth the price of the book for this alone. Sharon is sitting at work waiting as the clock slowl ticks toward 5 o clock so she can go home, when the telephone rings and a menacing voice tells her "I'm going to get you, Sharon!" Right before a man bursts into the offices and opens fire on her work collegues. The story takes off from here with Sharon (and a few others) in the builing trying to hide from the killer and escape death, extremely exciting and face paced, this is excellent and very highly recomended.
The second story is by Edward Lee and at about 160 pages, takes up over half of the book. Starts off almost exactly the same as Laymons' story for the first chapter (which actually made it reall fun top see it take off in a completely different direction later). However in this story, the killer is immeditaly disposed off. The story takes place 200 years in the future on a spaceship and how the spaceship is targeted by a Stana-worshipping terrorist organisation. Although I really enjoyed this story, there are an unbeliveable ammount of references to God and religion - litterally several times per page at some points! - but to be fair, it is important to the plot of the book and overall it feels more science fiction than horror, but this is certaiblt made up for the last 20 pages or so are some of the most brutal I've read! Overall I'd give it 4 stars.
The 3rd story by Jack Ketchum is completely different to the other 2 and is also very short - more of a short story than a novella at 40 pages, but still enjoyable. It starts off with a shooting scene again - this time with the mentally unstable protagonist as the killer - but this is just a dream and the main story is about how he hates the world in general. Cant really say much more without spoiling it as it's so short. I found it very funny in places which is always a good thing :). Warning: some may find this offensive as it has a lot of racist and homophobic dialogue. 4 stars.
Overall a very enjoyable book I would deffinatly recomend to horror fans or fans of any three of the authors. Also, I you like one of the authors, this is a good introduction to the others, too.
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