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Most of my friends would take far too little joy in the unpleasant proceedings here and would probably chuck the book aside in disgust. I have no idea who I would even recommend this book to. Needless to say I felt perfectly at home here. One of my favorite experiences is a novel whose characters are all so wretched and depraved that you don't even have it in you to root for any of them and eventually wind up rooting for the downtrodden protagonist just because anyone who gets THAT much shit heaped on them needs all the pity they can get. The half-smart, beaten-down, lust-driven protagonist, the poorly-orchestrated criminal enterprise that always ends up going south, the abyssal bad luck, the bevy of aggressive, manipulative, sleazy, batshit-crazy women to lure the poor schmuck astray.all present and accounted for. If the prose had been a little less raw and a touch more elegant, I would have honestly felt like I'd tripped and landed in the midst of one of Big Jim Thompson's dizzying fever dreams.

#68 kill trent haaga full#

I'd probably turn right around and read it again if I didn't have an entire shelf full of Smith's novels to dive into. It was tautly written, perfectly paced, and thoroughly engaging from its disarming intro to its gut-churning conclusion. This was my first Bryan Smith book and I tore through it like a razorblade through the soft underbelly of a dozing hooker in a roach-infested roadside motel. Sizzling heaps of brutality, depravity, sex, carnage, and mean-spirited examples of man's inhumanity to man. His works are available wherever books are sold, with select titles also available in German and Italian.Īn exceptionally nasty, degrading, horrific little bastard of a novel here. He has worked with renowned horror publishers in both the mass market and small press spheres, including Leisure Books, Samhain Publishing, Grindhouse Press, Death’s Head Press, and more. 68 Kill won the Midnighters Award at the SXSW film festival in 2017 and was released to wide acclaim, including positive reviews in The New York Times and Bloody Disgusting.īryan also co-scripted an original Harley Quinn story for the House of Horrors anthology from DC Comics.

#68 kill trent haaga series#

Bestselling horror author Brian Keene called Slowly We Rot, 'The best zombie novel I've ever read.'Ħ8 Kill was adapted into a motion picture directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler of the long-running CBS series Criminal Minds. Bryan Smith is the Splatterpunk Award-winning author of more than thirty horror and crime books, including 68 Kill, the cult classic Depraved and its sequels, as well as The Killing Kind, Slowly We Rot, The Freakshow, and many more.