Sunday, April 23, 2006

Flesh Gothic by Edward Lee


Started: 4/20/06
Finished: 4/21/06
Pages: 404
Year: 2004
Genre: Horror
Grade: B
Reason for reading: Booksfree.com book
Blurb (from back cover): "Hildreth House isn't like other mansions. One warm night in early spring, fourteen people entered Hildreth House's labyrinthine halls to partake in diabolical debauchery. When the orgy was over, the slaughter began. The next morning, thirteen of the revelers were found naked and butchered. Dismembered. Mutilated. But the fourteenth body was never found.
"The screams have faded and the blood has dried, but the house remains...watching. Now five very special people have dared to enter the infamous house of horrors. Who-or what-awaits them? And who will live to tell Hildreth House's ghastly secrets?"
Opinion: It's been a while since I've read a horror novel and this was a good one. It reminded me a lot of The House on Haunting Hill by Shirley Jackson but with a lot more sex. And not the sweet romantic lovemaking. Just down and dirty sex. For some, they won't be able to get past the sex scenes. I could see some throwing the book purely based on the sex but it's needed in this book. A smooth flowing book.

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