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The Farrowing by Jesse Wheeler
Shelly is house-sitting for the first time at the Ferguson place. With the family gone for the weekend, she is left alone in the secluded house nestled within the hills. Or so she thinks. She quickly learns that there are other inhabitants living under the house. Inhuman underground residents, hell-bent on violating every inch of her flesh. Both external and internal. A small door in the kitchen pantry turns out to be a gateway revealing a labyrinth of perversions and depraved decadence beyond her imagination. Shelly is unwillingly guided through the threshold, down into the caverns below the Ferguson house. What she encounters down there, will test every molecule of her physical, emotional, mental, and sexual ability.
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First published April 30, 2014
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May 8, 2014
Fuck yeah!
Jesse Wheeler, man. This guy is one of my inspirations when it comes to gross out stories. "Dinner At Vomitropolis" was a sensational book filled with the most awful, bile-rising, mouth-puking, stomach-turning, fun as hell filth I've ever read. And this book is no different.
Meet Shelly, a 17-year old girl house-sitting for the couple she babysits for. On her first night, she's attacked by vile, disgusting creatures and is dragged to a insane world of depravity and degradation.
Featuring: Cockworms, zombie-cum-sluts, pig creatures with human faces, and much more. This book is fun as hell, great movie material, and entertaining.
Read StrangeHouse books, you will never be disappointed.
Jesse Wheeler, man. This guy is one of my inspirations when it comes to gross out stories. "Dinner At Vomitropolis" was a sensational book filled with the most awful, bile-rising, mouth-puking, stomach-turning, fun as hell filth I've ever read. And this book is no different.
Meet Shelly, a 17-year old girl house-sitting for the couple she babysits for. On her first night, she's attacked by vile, disgusting creatures and is dragged to a insane world of depravity and degradation.
Featuring: Cockworms, zombie-cum-sluts, pig creatures with human faces, and much more. This book is fun as hell, great movie material, and entertaining.
Read StrangeHouse books, you will never be disappointed.
May 20, 2014
It's three thirty in the morning and I just finished this, so please excuse my haphazard review.
This book is definitely not for the faint of heart. I think it's got to be one of the most explicit, pornographic, offensive (maybe not THE most offensive thing I've ever seen, but it's on the list), and downright gross things I've ever read. This being said, though, it's a great read.
I think the best aspect of Wheeler's work in this is location and setting. Wheeler sends us to this super messed up place that, in all reality, could be real. It's simply a dirt cave that could have been on an episode of Hoarders, which is what I think makes it so uncomfortable. I think this is the first time I've ever been legitimately mentally uncomfortable reading something. I think it was the pink Christmas lights he talks about. There's just something very low-class and gross and trailer-parky about having strands of Christmas lights in an underground tunnel system made of dirt, with old blankets and clothes and random crap all over the floor. This is something that could really exist! And I hate the thought of it!
There's just this uncomfortable, low-class royalty feel to the whole book (plot-wise, not due to quality) and it makes me feel weird: Wheeler did his job.
And now I'm going to go to sleep and try to remember tomorrow to box up the pink Christmas lights I have in my closet that I used to have hung in my college bedroom. Cheers.
This book is definitely not for the faint of heart. I think it's got to be one of the most explicit, pornographic, offensive (maybe not THE most offensive thing I've ever seen, but it's on the list), and downright gross things I've ever read. This being said, though, it's a great read.
I think the best aspect of Wheeler's work in this is location and setting. Wheeler sends us to this super messed up place that, in all reality, could be real. It's simply a dirt cave that could have been on an episode of Hoarders, which is what I think makes it so uncomfortable. I think this is the first time I've ever been legitimately mentally uncomfortable reading something. I think it was the pink Christmas lights he talks about. There's just something very low-class and gross and trailer-parky about having strands of Christmas lights in an underground tunnel system made of dirt, with old blankets and clothes and random crap all over the floor. This is something that could really exist! And I hate the thought of it!
There's just this uncomfortable, low-class royalty feel to the whole book (plot-wise, not due to quality) and it makes me feel weird: Wheeler did his job.
And now I'm going to go to sleep and try to remember tomorrow to box up the pink Christmas lights I have in my closet that I used to have hung in my college bedroom. Cheers.
June 3, 2014
Imagine if Richard Laymon and Edward Lee had a baby together and gave it up to be raised by the lunatic who wrote DINNER AT THE VOMITROPOLIS. This is how you get THE FARROWING. Wheeler doesn't waste time getting down to business, either. He's ruthless, nasty and vile. You're not likely to forget the denizens of this book anytime soon, especially not Ginsberg, especially after he has a very odd run-in with Mr. Ferguson later in the book. That last chapter . . . wow. Just WOW.
October 26, 2018
This guy's writing was bad ass, but where is he now? Vanished into obscurity, which is cool if that's what you want, but this guy had a gift for storytelling and it is no longer being shared with the world. Dude dropped the ball. By all indications, this book was proof he was getting even better.
April 2, 2015
A Wild, Sick Read
This is a book of extreme horror. It's intense, gory, and disgusting. That said, I enjoyed it. If that's your thing, then you will too.
This is a book of extreme horror. It's intense, gory, and disgusting. That said, I enjoyed it. If that's your thing, then you will too.
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