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Reincarnage: Maximum Carnage
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER
Eleven people awaken in an abandoned motel. Transported from all over the United States, they have no memory of the journey and no idea where they are or why anyone would take them. Then they find the blood…and the heads mounted on stakes.
IT’S NOT OVER
Thirty years ago in the town of Morgan, a Vietnam vet embarked on a killing spree that ultimately cost him his life. Then he resurrected to do it again. And again. And again. Morgan has since been evacuated by the government and enclosed by walls thirty feet high to contain the inhuman slayer known as Agent Orange.
HE CAME BACK
Now confined to his hunting grounds, the abducted must survive the Kill Zone, where Agent Orange has traps and weapons stashed all around, an almost omniscient ability to stalk, and lifetimes to perfect the art of butchery with an endless canvas of human flesh. From Ryan Harding, Jason Taverner, and Death’s Head Press comes the debut of the most brutal slasher icon, with new bonus chapters, a much higher body count, and more gore than all the Friday the 13th movies combined. For him, death was just the beginning…
REINCARNAGE: MAXIMUM CARNAGE
Eleven people awaken in an abandoned motel. Transported from all over the United States, they have no memory of the journey and no idea where they are or why anyone would take them. Then they find the blood…and the heads mounted on stakes.
IT’S NOT OVER
Thirty years ago in the town of Morgan, a Vietnam vet embarked on a killing spree that ultimately cost him his life. Then he resurrected to do it again. And again. And again. Morgan has since been evacuated by the government and enclosed by walls thirty feet high to contain the inhuman slayer known as Agent Orange.
HE CAME BACK
Now confined to his hunting grounds, the abducted must survive the Kill Zone, where Agent Orange has traps and weapons stashed all around, an almost omniscient ability to stalk, and lifetimes to perfect the art of butchery with an endless canvas of human flesh. From Ryan Harding, Jason Taverner, and Death’s Head Press comes the debut of the most brutal slasher icon, with new bonus chapters, a much higher body count, and more gore than all the Friday the 13th movies combined. For him, death was just the beginning…
REINCARNAGE: MAXIMUM CARNAGE
- GenresHorrorSplatterpunk
331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 8, 2021
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About the author
Ryan Harding
37 books171 followersRyan Harding is the four-time Splatterpunk Award-winning author of books like Transcendental Mutilation, Genital Grinder, and collaborations with Jason Taverner (Reincursion, Reincarnage), Kristopher Triana (The Night Stockers), Lucas Mangum (Pandemonium), and Edward Lee (Header 3). He wrote the novella The Profile for the all Me Hoop anthology, and wrote guest scenes in Jonathan Butcher's Your Loved Ones Will Die First and Matt Shaw's The Devil's Guests. His short stories have appeared in the anthologies Y'All Ain't Right: Southern Extreme Horror Brewtality, The Big Book of Blasphemy, The New Flesh: A Literary Tribute to David Cronenberg, Splatterpunk Forever, Past Indiscretions, Masters of Horror, Battered Broken Bodies, Into Painfreak, DOA 3, and The Year's Best Hardcore Horror Vol. 3. His work has also been published in German, Italian, and Polish. Upcoming projects include a collaboration with Bryan Smith and the 3rd Agent Orange book with Jason Taverner.
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March 11, 2022
5 balls-to-the-wall stars
Full review available at The Mort Report:
https://www.uncomfortablydark.com/bla...
Slasher horror is impactful, balls to the wall blood and gore, high energy carnage. Sadly, if you’ve read enough of these stories, the impact fades and it can become predictable. So, when you come across something that feels original, it brings back the excitement and love of the horror genre.
REINCARNAGE by Ryan Harding and Jason Taverner gets a re-incarnation from Death’s Head Press, and it brings something different to the table. Instead of a nameless killer surprising unsuspecting victims, all the information is out there in the open.
Everyone knows Agent Orange is the killer and everyone knows they are being hunted. Everyone knows he is not human and everyone knows that, while he can be killed, he will come back to continue his destruction.
And when a group of strangers wakes up in the Kill Zone – a section cordoned off from the public and meant to keep the killer inside by the government – the only thing they should be worried about is trying to survive. They do not know why they were chosen, but they will have to do everything in their power to survive long enough to be extracted from the area.
But will they be extracted? Couldn’t it be the government who’ve put them there in the first place, for some kind of secret experiment? If help wasn’t coming, was there any hope of survival? Could they kill Agent Orange themselves?
This book is one very long adrenaline rush. The action is non-stop, the kills are brutal and the descriptions vivid.
You have to like your horror extreme to get through this one, but fans will enjoy the ride.
Full review available at The Mort Report:
https://www.uncomfortablydark.com/bla...
Slasher horror is impactful, balls to the wall blood and gore, high energy carnage. Sadly, if you’ve read enough of these stories, the impact fades and it can become predictable. So, when you come across something that feels original, it brings back the excitement and love of the horror genre.
REINCARNAGE by Ryan Harding and Jason Taverner gets a re-incarnation from Death’s Head Press, and it brings something different to the table. Instead of a nameless killer surprising unsuspecting victims, all the information is out there in the open.
Everyone knows Agent Orange is the killer and everyone knows they are being hunted. Everyone knows he is not human and everyone knows that, while he can be killed, he will come back to continue his destruction.
And when a group of strangers wakes up in the Kill Zone – a section cordoned off from the public and meant to keep the killer inside by the government – the only thing they should be worried about is trying to survive. They do not know why they were chosen, but they will have to do everything in their power to survive long enough to be extracted from the area.
But will they be extracted? Couldn’t it be the government who’ve put them there in the first place, for some kind of secret experiment? If help wasn’t coming, was there any hope of survival? Could they kill Agent Orange themselves?
This book is one very long adrenaline rush. The action is non-stop, the kills are brutal and the descriptions vivid.
You have to like your horror extreme to get through this one, but fans will enjoy the ride.
October 8, 2021
Agent Orange is that badass type of slasher that strikes fear into the heart of all those that face off with him. Like a Phoenix he keeps coming back, and even when alive he’s almost unkillable. For those unlucky enough to wake up in his kill zone, he’s the god damn boogeyman.
Reincarnage gives just enough information about AO to know what he’s all about without giving away all his tricks. The violence is crazy, but what do you really expect from Ryan Harding. The story is good, and it helps bring the book from kill scene to kill scene. I’m glad I picked this version up, it gives more backstory as well as giving you the fate of the other group left to become AO’s playthings.
Someone needs to turn this into a movie, Agent Orange could wipe the floor with Freddy and Jason any day.
Reincarnage gives just enough information about AO to know what he’s all about without giving away all his tricks. The violence is crazy, but what do you really expect from Ryan Harding. The story is good, and it helps bring the book from kill scene to kill scene. I’m glad I picked this version up, it gives more backstory as well as giving you the fate of the other group left to become AO’s playthings.
Someone needs to turn this into a movie, Agent Orange could wipe the floor with Freddy and Jason any day.
May 23, 2022
A wild slasher full of carnage and badass kills.
April 2, 2022
If you can imagine the natural outcome of the much-maligned ninth installment of the Friday the 13th series, Jason Goes To Hell, you've got some idea of what you're in for with Reincarnage by Ryan Harding and Jason Taverner.
With the titular Agent Orange, Vietnam Veteran turned slasher extraordinaire, we have a masked, seemingly immortal serial killer who routinely returns to slaughter people who make the mistake of venturing into his territory. The government knows he exists, and they know they've found no way to stop him in his murderous rampages more than temporarily. The only solution is to evacuate the region and build a fortified perimeter around the region Agent Orange inhabits. Patroled by military personnel tasked with killing him, again and again, to keep him contained within the walls, the perimeter isn't perfect but it's all that separates Agent Orange from the outside world.
Taking a page from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, Harding and Taverner imagine a culture of "stalkers" developing; brave or insane souls who venture into the kill zone for memorabilia, or for the sake of saying that they survived crossing into Agent Orange's territory. At the point when Reincarnage takes place, Agent Orange has become as much a part of pop culture as Charles Manson or Jason Voorhees. Books, video games, and collectibles of all sorts proliferate the world the authors introduce us to.
When eleven people wake up in an otherwise abandoned hotel, it doesn't take long for them to realize they're on the wrong side of the walls, with no idea how they got there or why they've been deposited in the last place any of them would want to be. Conspiracy theories abound, but answers are harder to come by. Maybe, if this band of survivors could find the time to catch their breath and think things through, they could discover why they're in the ghost town of Morgan and who would want to leave them there; but the number of survivors is steadily diminishing, and staying still for too long only invites disaster.
Will anyone stay alive long enough to discern the truth?
Will anyone escape?
You'll have to read it to find out.
This edition of the book includes additional material focused on another group of survivors venturing through the kill zone simultaneously, with no better fortune favoring them.
With the titular Agent Orange, Vietnam Veteran turned slasher extraordinaire, we have a masked, seemingly immortal serial killer who routinely returns to slaughter people who make the mistake of venturing into his territory. The government knows he exists, and they know they've found no way to stop him in his murderous rampages more than temporarily. The only solution is to evacuate the region and build a fortified perimeter around the region Agent Orange inhabits. Patroled by military personnel tasked with killing him, again and again, to keep him contained within the walls, the perimeter isn't perfect but it's all that separates Agent Orange from the outside world.
Taking a page from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Roadside Picnic, Harding and Taverner imagine a culture of "stalkers" developing; brave or insane souls who venture into the kill zone for memorabilia, or for the sake of saying that they survived crossing into Agent Orange's territory. At the point when Reincarnage takes place, Agent Orange has become as much a part of pop culture as Charles Manson or Jason Voorhees. Books, video games, and collectibles of all sorts proliferate the world the authors introduce us to.
When eleven people wake up in an otherwise abandoned hotel, it doesn't take long for them to realize they're on the wrong side of the walls, with no idea how they got there or why they've been deposited in the last place any of them would want to be. Conspiracy theories abound, but answers are harder to come by. Maybe, if this band of survivors could find the time to catch their breath and think things through, they could discover why they're in the ghost town of Morgan and who would want to leave them there; but the number of survivors is steadily diminishing, and staying still for too long only invites disaster.
Will anyone stay alive long enough to discern the truth?
Will anyone escape?
You'll have to read it to find out.
This edition of the book includes additional material focused on another group of survivors venturing through the kill zone simultaneously, with no better fortune favoring them.
July 1, 2022
Enjoyable but some of the Character's PoV dragged on a bit and not all the deaths were satisfying for the work of reading through them.
June 27, 2023
I loved the carnage! Beware if you find yourself in The Kill Zone because your head will end up on the end of a stake care of Agent Orange. If you’re a fan of Slasher’s this is the book for you.
July 11, 2023
An absolutely wild concept combining some of the very best horror troupes with unrelenting extreme violence. Can never go wrong with Ryan.
October 8, 2021
Excellent - a fun read. Just what you would hope for: a prolific slasher operating in a walled-off city, a new bunch of unlucky people dropped inside, crazy antics ensue.
It took me a while to differentiate the characters at the beginning. Still, this book does a good job of making you squirm and it’s not afraid to off someone at a moment’s notice.
Reading the sequel …
It took me a while to differentiate the characters at the beginning. Still, this book does a good job of making you squirm and it’s not afraid to off someone at a moment’s notice.
Reading the sequel …
November 15, 2021
An incredible entry into the horro genre, Ryan and JT do an amazing job of bringing the slasher genre to life.
April 7, 2022
This is everything I could've hoped for out of a slasher novel.
November 8, 2024
This is the kind of book I wouldn't recommend to others but I wouldn't actively discourage others from reading it.
I had no problem with the actual story; the characters were well fleshed out (pun intended)—it was an overall fine read. My major problem was with the descriptions of the deaths. They didn't quite have that "oomph" factor I was looking for, not to mention the inconsistencies in describing the kills. Some were a bit convoluted and hard to picture, while others were written in a manner that you could see things as they happened.
I happened to get the one with the bonus chapters but I stopped reading because I just didn't *care*. I don't think killers with supernatural abilities are for me.
I had no problem with the actual story; the characters were well fleshed out (pun intended)—it was an overall fine read. My major problem was with the descriptions of the deaths. They didn't quite have that "oomph" factor I was looking for, not to mention the inconsistencies in describing the kills. Some were a bit convoluted and hard to picture, while others were written in a manner that you could see things as they happened.
I happened to get the one with the bonus chapters but I stopped reading because I just didn't *care*. I don't think killers with supernatural abilities are for me.
February 21, 2023
fun slasher with a final girl! wish we saw more of Annette’s POV bc I LOVE a mentally disturbed woman *chefs kiss* and less of Adams bc I cannot stand horny 16 year old boys.
ALSO just because characters are racist, sexist, ableist, etc etc does not mean the authors are Jesus Christ. It was a lil ICK at times don’t get me wrong, but that died off as soon as disgusting Lawrence was killed first. bless
**Read for 72 Hours Readathon
ALSO just because characters are racist, sexist, ableist, etc etc does not mean the authors are Jesus Christ. It was a lil ICK at times don’t get me wrong, but that died off as soon as disgusting Lawrence was killed first. bless
**Read for 72 Hours Readathon
August 4, 2024
The writing style was a bit off putting and lacked much energy. Also, the chapters seemed to drag a little and most all of the deaths were that satisfying (or maybe it was just how they were described). However, the concept is brilliant, the characters were very good, the ending was quite good, and the added chapters provided more of of insane kills I was hoping for.
3.5 Stars
3.5 Stars
December 31, 2024
If you love the slasher genre you need to read this book. An edge of your seat thrill ride full of blood and guts, a crazy undead killer and the most unique kills you can imagine. A very fun read.
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