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Horror Sleaze Trash: Prose in Poor Taste by Arthur Graham

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


In his forward, editor Arthur Graham writes that HST "has always been a place for the writers and the stories shunned by publishers of the bland and inoffensive” and invites writers to keep sending him their off-the-wall and otherwise unpublishable shit. Prose in Poor Taste is a collection of the best from HST, and it rocks. The stories, nearly all of them, are good--short, sharp, startling, obscene, hilarious, unconventional, in your face, against the grain. HST is an oasis of sanity (or insanity) in an ocean of pretentious "literary" websites. (For what it's worth, I avoid websites with literary, journal or review in the title.) HST/Prose in Poor Taste cuts through the crap and delivers. So why only four stars? Gotta leave room for Orwell, Chandler, Ellroy and the other masters. My only question: When's the next collection of HST prose fiction?




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