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The Toilet Zone #3
The Toilet Zone: The Royal Flush
There exists a mysterious dimension outside the three known to man. It is a dark realm of unspeakable evils that extends from beyond the stars to the infernal regions lying deep within the human, or more fittingly, inhuman heart.
A place where demons dwell, where nightmares tend to be more than just bad dreams, and where anomalous terrors can rise up at any moment from the still, watery depths beneath you.
Compiled and edited by HellBound Books’ very own mistress of the macabre, Gerri R. Gray, this third volume in The Toilet Zone series overflows with 30 hair-raising tales, each one ideal in length for a sit-down read when nature calls. And, for those ‘wee’ visits to the smallest room, there are a handful of shorter stories we affectionately refer to as ‘flush fiction.’
In our dimension, where the signposts are written in blood, you‘ll meet all sorts of intriguing individuals: a nun who makes a habit out of murdering, a magician whose tricks will leave you stumped, and an incarcerated killer who brings an entirely new meaning to the term ‘jailbird’.
You’ll also visit public restrooms that’ll make you want to “hold on to it” until you get home. Watch out for the neck-biters and ankle-biters, and rest assured, there’s an abundance of bugs and slugs and other creepy-crawlers waiting to make you squirm in your seat. And that’s not to mention all the dead things that simply refuse to stay dead.
So, prepare yourself for some restroom reading at its most terrifying!
A place where demons dwell, where nightmares tend to be more than just bad dreams, and where anomalous terrors can rise up at any moment from the still, watery depths beneath you.
Compiled and edited by HellBound Books’ very own mistress of the macabre, Gerri R. Gray, this third volume in The Toilet Zone series overflows with 30 hair-raising tales, each one ideal in length for a sit-down read when nature calls. And, for those ‘wee’ visits to the smallest room, there are a handful of shorter stories we affectionately refer to as ‘flush fiction.’
In our dimension, where the signposts are written in blood, you‘ll meet all sorts of intriguing individuals: a nun who makes a habit out of murdering, a magician whose tricks will leave you stumped, and an incarcerated killer who brings an entirely new meaning to the term ‘jailbird’.
You’ll also visit public restrooms that’ll make you want to “hold on to it” until you get home. Watch out for the neck-biters and ankle-biters, and rest assured, there’s an abundance of bugs and slugs and other creepy-crawlers waiting to make you squirm in your seat. And that’s not to mention all the dead things that simply refuse to stay dead.
So, prepare yourself for some restroom reading at its most terrifying!
- GenresHorror
335 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 12, 2022
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36 books74 followersI am an Indie horror author currently living in the Los Angeles area.
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May 31, 2022
It is actually a funny story, the fact that, when I started reading 'The Toilet Zone:The Royal Flush' I was confined to the tiny space of my toilet due to severe gastritis.
The wonderful Madame Gerri Gray and the rest of dark entities inhabiting Hellbound Books Publishing were awesome enough to send me a copy of their blood-soaked anthology of horror tales, 'The Toilet Zone:The Royal Flush' for review.
This collection of 30 wonderful, bite sized, blood-churning tales is the third volume in The Toilet Zone series and will leave horror readers amazed.
Grotesque stories that pack a serious punch and vary in thematology and style, making it the perfect companion, before sleep or during those moments of 'release' throughout the day.
Welcome to a world of weird wonders, meet a nun who makes a habit out of murdering, a magician whose tricks will leave you stumped, and a unique jailbird of an incarcerated killer.
In here, dear reader, you will visit public restrooms that’ll make you want to “hold on to it” like your life depended on it. Get your disgust flowing with creepy crawlers of all kinds. There are bugs and slugs, all sorts of biters including dead things that refuse to stay dead.
I loved Tim Mendees's 'Savage Wind'. His writing style is unique, scary and fun at the same time and when he writes a cryptid.... there's satisfaction guaranteed.
Also 'Bug Motel' by James Musgrave is another fantastic story and concept that manages to make you feel uneasy in just a few pages.
Gerri Gray has done a fantastic job selecting great, disgustingly beautiful stories that will keep you pinned to your... toilet seat reading like your life depended on it.
Thank God that there are 2 more volumes as you will definitely ask for more.
The wonderful Madame Gerri Gray and the rest of dark entities inhabiting Hellbound Books Publishing were awesome enough to send me a copy of their blood-soaked anthology of horror tales, 'The Toilet Zone:The Royal Flush' for review.
This collection of 30 wonderful, bite sized, blood-churning tales is the third volume in The Toilet Zone series and will leave horror readers amazed.
Grotesque stories that pack a serious punch and vary in thematology and style, making it the perfect companion, before sleep or during those moments of 'release' throughout the day.
Welcome to a world of weird wonders, meet a nun who makes a habit out of murdering, a magician whose tricks will leave you stumped, and a unique jailbird of an incarcerated killer.
In here, dear reader, you will visit public restrooms that’ll make you want to “hold on to it” like your life depended on it. Get your disgust flowing with creepy crawlers of all kinds. There are bugs and slugs, all sorts of biters including dead things that refuse to stay dead.
I loved Tim Mendees's 'Savage Wind'. His writing style is unique, scary and fun at the same time and when he writes a cryptid.... there's satisfaction guaranteed.
Also 'Bug Motel' by James Musgrave is another fantastic story and concept that manages to make you feel uneasy in just a few pages.
Gerri Gray has done a fantastic job selecting great, disgustingly beautiful stories that will keep you pinned to your... toilet seat reading like your life depended on it.
Thank God that there are 2 more volumes as you will definitely ask for more.
March 16, 2022
THE NEFARIOUS CARLTON HERZOG GIVES TOILET ZONE 3 FIVE OF FIVE STARS
For starters, the cover’s display of a human violating the privacy of a grey alien on the toilet is brilliant. How you like us now E.T.? From the shocked look on your face, I’m guessing not so much.
I love how Gerri Gray curates her anthologies. There’s a skill to it. From my imaginary orbit, I see the order of the narratives as a narrative unto itself with its own metaphysical economy. Perhaps because of the egotistical magnificence I, like most psychotics, attribute to myself.
Let us go now to forsaken typographies and mad transmutations befitting the almighty porcelain sanctuary. I enjoyed James Musgrave’s Bug Motel’s brilliant scientific horror suffused as it was with sly social commentary. Josh Darling’s Collateral makes excellent use of gore as an intensifier to drive the story, much like one might use profanity to emphasize a point. I could feel it in my own viscera and not in good way. Geri Gray’s Vow of Obedience evokes Poe’s William Wilson, as well his Imp of the Perverse. The use of the mirror made it hard for me to tell if the protagonist was a garden variety nut, demonically possessed, or looking through a portal. My favorite line was, “You and your ilk turn your backs on life and concern yourselves more with what happens after your physical bodies die. And is not that crucifix you clutch in your murdering hands a symbol of execution? You might as well pray to a noose or an electric chair.” I’m cheering and stamping my feet as I read it. Well played Gray well played.
My good friend J.B. Toner rocked the bowl with crime horror and the line “his fat fingers diddling the pie.” Another great story penned by the man with unforgettable name Pangbourne had a great opening line: “It’s a goddam eyesore that’s what it is.” You must read the story.
That brings me Chris McCauley who stepped off Mars and into the Stokerverse to give us some Watson and Holmes. It was an interesting choice because it took me back to gas lamped England. I loved the description of the monster elinguating the child: “The creature snatched the tongue of the girl and pulled. It stretched forward like rubber and tore. The child’s face was now a fountain of blood. Her eyes, in an almost merciful manner, were obscured with gore.”
I also liked the Savage Wind by the MAD GOTH Tim Mendees. It’s a wendigo extravaganza. I loved Bloodbath by Rebecca Kolodziej for its descriptive style and flow, as well as its surrealistic horror. The perfect capstone for a perfect anthology.
The rest of the stories were equally great, so much so, that in my opinion, this volume is as good as if not better than any of the so-called Years Best Anthologies floating in the digital ether.
For starters, the cover’s display of a human violating the privacy of a grey alien on the toilet is brilliant. How you like us now E.T.? From the shocked look on your face, I’m guessing not so much.
I love how Gerri Gray curates her anthologies. There’s a skill to it. From my imaginary orbit, I see the order of the narratives as a narrative unto itself with its own metaphysical economy. Perhaps because of the egotistical magnificence I, like most psychotics, attribute to myself.
Let us go now to forsaken typographies and mad transmutations befitting the almighty porcelain sanctuary. I enjoyed James Musgrave’s Bug Motel’s brilliant scientific horror suffused as it was with sly social commentary. Josh Darling’s Collateral makes excellent use of gore as an intensifier to drive the story, much like one might use profanity to emphasize a point. I could feel it in my own viscera and not in good way. Geri Gray’s Vow of Obedience evokes Poe’s William Wilson, as well his Imp of the Perverse. The use of the mirror made it hard for me to tell if the protagonist was a garden variety nut, demonically possessed, or looking through a portal. My favorite line was, “You and your ilk turn your backs on life and concern yourselves more with what happens after your physical bodies die. And is not that crucifix you clutch in your murdering hands a symbol of execution? You might as well pray to a noose or an electric chair.” I’m cheering and stamping my feet as I read it. Well played Gray well played.
My good friend J.B. Toner rocked the bowl with crime horror and the line “his fat fingers diddling the pie.” Another great story penned by the man with unforgettable name Pangbourne had a great opening line: “It’s a goddam eyesore that’s what it is.” You must read the story.
That brings me Chris McCauley who stepped off Mars and into the Stokerverse to give us some Watson and Holmes. It was an interesting choice because it took me back to gas lamped England. I loved the description of the monster elinguating the child: “The creature snatched the tongue of the girl and pulled. It stretched forward like rubber and tore. The child’s face was now a fountain of blood. Her eyes, in an almost merciful manner, were obscured with gore.”
I also liked the Savage Wind by the MAD GOTH Tim Mendees. It’s a wendigo extravaganza. I loved Bloodbath by Rebecca Kolodziej for its descriptive style and flow, as well as its surrealistic horror. The perfect capstone for a perfect anthology.
The rest of the stories were equally great, so much so, that in my opinion, this volume is as good as if not better than any of the so-called Years Best Anthologies floating in the digital ether.
July 21, 2025
A great collection of horror and speculative fiction—and I’m not just saying that because mine’s in it. Though of course it is. Each story is purposely as short as a turn in the bathroom to do #2, and there’s a helpful and healthy reminder to wash after each story. An amusingly low-brow collection that correctly doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Worth a buy and a read, as are the others in the series!
Worth a buy and a read, as are the others in the series!
March 2, 2024
Mostly good. All of the stories are short, for obvious reading reasons, but quality can sometimes suffer in really short stories. And length is inconsistent, just as... ahem, time on the porcelain throne; so some sort of organization method would've been appreciated.
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