Journal Entry 1 by Tribefan from Lakemore, Ohio USA on Saturday, April 24, 2004

From Publishers Weekly
Love and death have been twinned in the horror genre ever since Poe imagined bedding his young bride in her sepulcher by the sea. Recently, several anthologies, spearheaded by Hot Blood (1989) and its sequels, have capitalized on horror fans' taste for the eros in thanatos. Dark Love may be the strongest such book yet. The first of its 22 original tales is a raucous Stephen King entry, "Lunch at the Golden Cafe," which takes a blood-smeared butcher blade to the notion of romantic love. Similarly subversive are Richard Laymon's "The Maiden," a gleefully nasty riff on adolescent lust, and Ed Gorman's "The End of It All," in which a man's reunion with his teenage crush inspires enough plot twists to fill a novel. Not all of the stories here work well. Some, like those by David J. Schow and Ramsey Campbell, are accomplished tales but seem to have only a tangential relation to the book's theme; then there's "Locked Away," by Karl Edward Wagner, which isn't much more than a parade of pornographic images. By contrast, two of the three best stories here?Kathe Koja's "Pas de Deux" and John Peyton Cooke's daring "The Penitent" (which explores the netherland of pain and domination)?use graphic detail for provocation rather than titillation. The book's final story, Douglas Winter's "Loop," about one man's obsession with a porno star, does the same, offering an insidiously seductive conclusion to one of the finest horror collections of the year.  

Journal Entry 2 by Tribefan at Lakemore, Ohio USA on Sunday, May 01, 2011

Wow! Talk about some sick shit! This collection of stories are crazy and off the wall but I enjoyed most of them anyways! 

Journal Entry 3 by Tribefan at Akron Reading Festival in Akron, Ohio USA on Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Released 3 mos ago (2/4/2012 UTC) at Akron Reading Festival in Akron, Ohio USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Look for the Rubber City Book Posse!
We will have a table and be giving away books at the Family Reading Festival on Saturday, Feb 4th from 10AM to 4PM. Located at the Main Library in downtown Akron.

Bookcrossing: n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
- from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary

Welcome to BookCrossing!

Thank you for picking up this book. Please make a journal entry on the BookCrossing site (www.bookcrossing.com) to let me know that this book has found a good home with you. You may choose to remain anonymous or to join (its free). If you join, please consider indicating that you were referred by Tribefan. I hope you enjoy the book. You can make another journal entry with your comments when you’ve finished reading. Whenever you’re ready to send it on its way, make a journal entry if you are giving or sending this book to a known person, or release notes if you are leaving it “in the wild” again for anyone to catch. Then watch its journey. You’ll be alerted by e-mail each time someone makes another journal entry. It’s all confidential (you’re known only by your screen name and no one is ever given your e-mail address), free, and spam-free.