Robert Steven Rhine
Asylum Press
Web: http://www.asylumpress.com
Girls and Corpses
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Satan's
3-Ring Circus of Hell is a powerful horror anthology exploring all manner of
horror and transgressive subject matter. Writer Robert Steven Rhine has filled
this visually stunning volume with some forty or so short stories featuring
gore, sex, violence, zombies, sex, horror and ever other possible dark genre.
The stories are all created in different styles and hence you get a diverse
range of artistic expression from full colour gore to black and white comics,
fake adverts to full page cartoons. Rhine has brought together a literal
cornucopia of artists such as William Stout, Tim Vigil, John Cassaday, Jim
Smith and Steve Bissette, indeed there is art from over forty artists in this
one volume so really is a intense journey into wild territory.
Intense
is in many ways a good word, Rhine has a very wild and sick imagination as well
as a dark and perverse approach to horror, at the same time this is matched
with a great sense of humour, so even in the darkest tales there is usually a
dose of wit and some tongue in cheek humour.
Satan's
3-Ring Circus of Hell is a truly strange volume, some of the art is incredibly
beautiful such as The Great Cthulhu while other stories are just so grotesque
you want to look away but can’t. There are all sorts of unusual stories here
from an army private who is the guinea pig for a top secret drug which prolongs
emotions and feelings to a Hollywood graveyard bus tour which literally digs up
the dirt on deceased stars. There is a zombie eating competition, Separation
Anxiety invites into the world of freak love and desires gone very much awry,
there are tales of plastic surgery, even a story (Gas Pains) about a woman who
gives birth to snakes, there some rather perverse full page adverts, the
Symposium about a vampire convention and lots and lots more.
Satan's
3-Ring Circus of Hell is 256 pages in length with 120 pages in color and 136
pages in black and white half toned and hence packed with intense ground
breaking content.
As
with other products by Rhine the production values are the very best. The
colour quality is superb and the detail in the black and white comics is quite
astounding. This is a product of the highest quality,
extreme, outrageous and transgressive, just like I like ‘em !
There
is something to shock, offend, stimulate and horrify everyone here. In other
words, it is a great buy !