🩸 Horror Fiction

Cesspool

✍️ Devin Francisco
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4.4
(1 review)
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🏛 Lulu.com 📅 2014 📖 106 pages 🌐 English 📔 Paperback ISBN: 9781312441620

📝 Description: Cesspool

Come swim in the cesspool. The water is vile. A hooded man plays a twisted game of cards in a back alley. The parents of a demon baby are plagued by their brood's incessant whimpering. Death loses its meaning after a sick experiment by an old doctor. The silence of mimes cuts just as sharp as their blades. A ballerina twirls gracelessly as a toy laments its fate. Bungling teenagers attempt to dispose of a body after a threesome gone horribly wrong. Cesspool features 20 pieces of macabre art by Jay Hansen and Devin Francisco, accompanied by grotesque stories by Joe Knetter, MP Johnson, T. A. Wardrope, Tyler Hansen, Kenneth E. Olson and Roxie Hockensmith.

💎 Our verdict on Cesspool

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Horror Reads editorial team
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Cesspool delivers a potent mix of horror vignettes, catering to lovers of the grotesque and the macabre. The diverse authorship ensures varied tones, ranging from psychological unease to outright body horror. Those who prefer polished, mainstream horror novels may find the indie presentation and fragmented nature of the stories lacking in depth. It is best suited for collectors of dark art and fans of short-form, high-impact horror fiction who value atmosphere and visual storytelling over narrative complexity.
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Cesspool delivers a potent mix of horror vignettes, catering to lovers of the grotesque and the macabre. The diverse authorship ensures varied tones, ranging from psychological unease to outright body horror. Those who prefer polished, mainstream horror novels may find the indie presentation and fragmented nature of the stories lacking in depth. It is best suited for collectors of dark art and fans of short-form, high-impact horror fiction who value atmosphere and visual storytelling over narrative complexity.

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