Rejected for Content 2: Aberrant Menagerie

Rejected for Content #2

by Jim Goforth (editor), Christopher Ropes, Essel Scott Pratt

With the aberrant, the erotic, the grotesque and the horrifying, occasionally all rolled into one, Rejected For Content 2 continues relentlessly down the path blazed by its predecessor, Splattergore. These are tales deemed too hardcore or too outrageous for other publishers to consider; pieces both confronting and affronting, with strong messages woven through the tapestry of that often shocking content. Featuring: Christopher Ropes, Mark Tompkins, Essel Scott Pratt, Kevin J. Macleod, Dona Fox, Christine Morgan, Michael Fisher, Michael Noe, Toneye Eyenot, Amanda M. Lyons, Mark Woods, Bryan Nickelberry, Magenta Nero, Matthew R. Davis, Roy C. Booth & Axel Kohagen, Stuart Keane, Alex S. Johnson and Jim Goforth. Warning: Strong violence, explicit sex, coarse language, blood and gore.

Genres: Splatterpunk

272 pages, Paperback

First published March 29, 2014

About the author

Jim Goforth is a horror author currently based in Albury, Australia. Happily married with two kids and a cat, he has been writing tales of horror since the early nineties.
After years of detouring into working with the worldwide extreme metal community and writing reviews for hundreds of bands across the globe with Black Belle Music he returned to his biggest writing love with first book Plebs published by J. Ellington Ashton Press. Along with Plebs, he is the author of a collection of short stories/novellas With Tooth and Claw, extreme metal undead opus Undead Fleshcrave: The Zombie Trigger, Riders: Plebs 2-Book One and Two, The Sleep, Carnival of Chaos, and Festival of the Flesh, co-author of collaborative novel Feral Hearts, and editor for the Rejected For Content anthology series (taking over the reins after volume one Splattergore. He also has stories in both Splattergore and Volume 2: Aberrant Menagerie).
He has also appeared in Matt Shaw’s Masters of Horror, Tales From the Lake Vol. 2, Axes of Evil, Terror Train, Autumn Burning: Dreadtime Stories For the Wicked Soul, Floppy Shoes Apocalypse, Teeming Terrors, Ghosts: An Anthology of Horror From the Beyond, Suburban Secrets: A Neighborhood of Nightmares, Doorway To Death: An Anthology From the Other Side, Easter Eggs and Bunny Boilers, MvF: Death Personified, Drowning in Gore, Trashed, Full Moon Slaughter, Moon Books Horror Anthology 2016, Dual Depravity (co-author), VS: US vs UK Horror, Bah! Humbug: An Anthology of Christmas Horror Stories, and several others including numerous anthologies in Project 26 from J. Ellington Ashton Press.
He is currently at work on Plebs 3, and a handful of other novels.

Reviews

[Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a HUGE improvement from Vol. 1! I thoroughly enjoyed the majority of this anthology. While the stories are extreme, the content fit the story and rarely did I feel that I was just reading something that was shocking for its own sake. I didn't care for the poetry, but I normally don't, and I ended up skimming one story that had too many errors in it to enjoy, but as a whole this is one of the better anthologies I've read. I hope Vol. 3 can live up to it! 4.5 stars.

[Tamara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another gor-a-rific collection from some masters of splatter! I look forward to reading more!