Bare Bone #5

Rating:
Summary: Making no bones about it...
Review: Bare Bone #5 is a standout collection with cutting edge material from great voices in dark fiction. Contributions from the likes of Kurt Newton, Michael Arnzen, Charlee Jacob, and Steve Rasnic Tem truly make this a treasure chest of the strange and bizarre.

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Summary: Direct from the darkest recesses of the human experience
Review: Bare Bone 5, is just what it purports to be, the bare bones of reality. The skeletons of humanity ripped from there flesh and forced to parade about naked for all to see. It is at once beautiful and frightening. Direct from the darkest recesses of the human experience, these demons are dragged out kicking and screaming, brought into the light and made to dance and sing for our amusement and horror.

BB 5, is at it's bones it's a collection of stories and poems in the realm psychological horror. As opposed to gore which grabs your gut, BB 5 grabs your brain and carries it off as spoils of war. The works contain elements of humor, classic horror, sci fi and surrealism, and yet it all revolves around this tightly packed BAM experience. Meant to jolt you and leave you lying awake in bed, paranoid delusions dancing through your mind. Well mission accomplished, I may never sleep again.

Howl with the raw dog screaming!

Rating:
Summary: Direct from the darkest recesses of the human experience
Review: Bare Bone 5, is just what it purports to be, the bare bones of reality. The skeletons of humanity ripped from there flesh and forced to parade about naked for all to see. It is at once beautiful and frightening. Direct from the darkest recesses of the human experience, these demons are dragged out kicking and screaming, brought into the light and made to dance and sing for our amusement and horror.

BB 5, is at it's bones it's a collection of stories and poems in the realm psychological horror. As opposed to gore which grabs your gut, BB 5 grabs your brain and carries it off as spoils of war. The works contain elements of humor, classic horror, sci fi and surrealism, and yet it all revolves around this tightly packed BAM experience. Meant to jolt you and leave you lying awake in bed, paranoid delusions dancing through your mind. Well mission accomplished, I may never sleep again.

Howl with the raw dog screaming!

Rating:
Summary: Five-carat diamond in the rough!
Review: Damn that crew at Raw Dog Screaming Press, Damn them all! After almost rupturing my spleen compliments of Sick, I thought I had prepared well for BB#5. Coffee -check, blankie -check, empty stomach so as not to further harm my abdominal lining -check. Well kiddies, they got me again and it is with great shame to tell you that I am now cursed with LSD-like perceptual disturbances that the doctors say may or may not end in the not-too-distant future. Thanks Mr. Donihe, I owe you; can you dig it? I knew that you could.

Twisting and turning reality until it resembles nothing more than frayed nerves and mental disintegration, Kevin L. Donihe has assembled a collection that is both majestic and hideous. Out of each authors mouth, falls the bones of secrets that when exposed leave you feeling you dirty, horrified and oddly enough, sedated. Exquisite! Gone is the dance of pseudo-cerebral verbal garbage, this list of writers assault the mind with an audacity a girl can admire.

The diversity of plots is truly the highlight of this book. Without inhibition, this selection of tales incorporates everything from the surreal to the frighteningly mundane. Each author's style of writing shows genteel craftsmanship with a concise execution and a pace that not only complements the story, it enhances the tale. The atmosphere in the book produces an almost palpable dementia. Shading the line between what is accepted reality and what is the author's psychosis, Donihe brings together what religious zealots would call an abomination and what I call Friday night at the Johnson's.

Raw Dog has produced yet another visceral horror to screw with your emotional state, leave you with nightmares that will make your body shudder and provide you with an alarmingly large amount of therapy conversation!

What are you doing still reading - Go Buy it New, Now!!!


Rating:
Summary: To the Bone...
Review: Engaging, entertaining, highly readable...BB#5 not only projects top quality short fiction from some established and up-and-coming names in the genre, but also proves that Raw Dog Screaming Press is on the path to publication stardom. A must for serious horror aficionados.

Rating:
Summary: C'mon, people - love this
Review: Okay - I'm in the magazine. Ignore that, though - I promise I won't talk about my story.

First of all, let's talk about 'Pit Crew' - it's amazing. It's visceral, and real, but it's also got enough weirdness to vault it into the ranks of the great short horror stories...

Oh, and 'The Festering' - brilliant. Wish I'd written it. Glad someone did. Sex, filth, beautiful language, wonderful ending...

Oh, for God's sake - if you like horror, you'll love this magazine. Really. Give it a shot.

Rating:
Summary: C'mon, people - love this
Review: Okay - I'm in the magazine. Ignore that, though - I promise I won't talk about my story.

First of all, let's talk about 'Pit Crew' - it's amazing. It's visceral, and real, but it's also got enough weirdness to vault it into the ranks of the great short horror stories...

Oh, and 'The Festering' - brilliant. Wish I'd written it. Glad someone did. Sex, filth, beautiful language, wonderful ending...

Oh, for God's sake - if you like horror, you'll love this magazine. Really. Give it a shot.