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Painfreak #1
Painfreak: Ultimate Edition
383 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1996
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About the author
Gerard Houarner
73 books37 followers“Houarner is a smart, intelligent talent who has a gift for writing with serene beauty about the most atrocious things.” Ed Bryant, Locus
He is also the author of 5 novels and over 300 short stories and novellas, some gathered in 6 collections.
He fell to Earth in the fifties and is a product of the NYC school system and the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer and crashed hallucinogenic William Burroughs seminars back in the day.
The mental health field has provided a living as well as inspiration for the past 34 years. His current position might be described as Director of Recovery and Recreation at Arkham Asylum.
Since 1998, he has served as Fiction Editor for Space and Time magazine.
He continues to write whenever he can, mostly at night, about the dark.
He is also the author of 5 novels and over 300 short stories and novellas, some gathered in 6 collections.
He fell to Earth in the fifties and is a product of the NYC school system and the City College of New York, where he studied writing under Joseph Heller and Joel Oppenheimer and crashed hallucinogenic William Burroughs seminars back in the day.
The mental health field has provided a living as well as inspiration for the past 34 years. His current position might be described as Director of Recovery and Recreation at Arkham Asylum.
Since 1998, he has served as Fiction Editor for Space and Time magazine.
He continues to write whenever he can, mostly at night, about the dark.
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
August 11, 2022
Great collection of short stories. Almost 600 pages of the depraved Painfreak. A lot of gore and sex.
January 3, 2017
This is a nasty little collection of erotic horror stories. The kind that make you feel filthy reading them. But there is a ton of creativity throughout the collection. Well worth hunting down for horror fans.
October 12, 2023
2.5 stars
The good stories we're very good, but the other stories definitely not my cup of tea. Sadly I didn't like that many stories in the book, it's a lot of supernatural, cosmic horror and Bizarro. Tons of Religious entities. creatures, demons and more. Not what I'm usually looking for.
My favorite stories of the book.
Tongue
Feast Of The Lonely Flesh
Hot Thing
My Kind Of Woman
The good stories we're very good, but the other stories definitely not my cup of tea. Sadly I didn't like that many stories in the book, it's a lot of supernatural, cosmic horror and Bizarro. Tons of Religious entities. creatures, demons and more. Not what I'm usually looking for.
My favorite stories of the book.
Tongue
Feast Of The Lonely Flesh
Hot Thing
My Kind Of Woman
June 16, 2023
It's... damn, for 20 years now that I've been reading the tales of Max and the Dead Cat, never not enjoyable. This collection contains mostly reprints, but it's not a bad thing, considering that many of the collected stories were published initially in some pretty esoteric places. Also, the biggest chunk of new stuff? It's the worst bit in the set, in a large part due to the fact that The Evil Cookie don't do editing (never did, it's, like, their excretal trademark). The misspellings, lost words, garbled sentences are so numerous, there ought to be a trigger warning provided.
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