Christmas Slaughter

Mutants Amok #5

by Mark Grant

Genetically engineered to fight mankind's wars, murderous mutant soldiers have instead made war on their creators-brutally enslaving the human race and obscenely perverting its most sacred traditions. To celebrate their grotesque parody of Christmas, the laboratory-bred monstrosities are rounding up human beings for processing in a garish, ornament-bedecked slaughterhouse. And now rebel leader Max Turkel and his tiny band of guerrilla fighters must sabotage the hideous enterprise and disrupt the mutant masters' happy Horrorday... before every last surviving man, woman and, child on Earth is ground up into bloody bits!

Genres: Horror

181 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1991

About the author

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A pseudonym of David Bischoff with Bruce King

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mutants Amok: Christmas Slaughter was the fifth and final book of a series that lasted for five volumes written primarily by David Bischoff under the pseudonym Mark Grant. This one, however, was written by Bruce King, and doesn't have the Mutants Amok logo or numbering. It's a schlocky sex and violence series, set in a post-apocalyptic world in which genetically manipulated super soldiers have revolted and rule the surviving humans. It's like a Troma film where the gory details are so over-the-top that they're amusing but lacking the subtlety and soft-touch finesse of films like, say, The Toxic Avenger. Like the third and fourth books, this one seems a bit shorter and sillier than the first two books. The sex is primarily provided by an android named Sue, and the violence is more cartoonish in nature. The rebels Maximillian Turkel, Jack Bender, Phil Potts, and their unlikely friends try to save Christmas for humanity, but for the spirit of the season one should stick with Connie Willis and Charles Dickens. As previously, the story delivers what the cover (is that a Darrell Sweet painting?) promises, with copious sex and violence and guilty humor and is an appropriate enough conclusion to the Mutants Amok series.