Snuff

by Adam Huber, Eric Enck

The revamped, restored edition. When an out of work actor with a penchant for ultra-violent sex teams up with an amateur pornographer, the result is a lucrative business filled with unimaginable horrors. Only when things take an incestuous turn does Jack Sanders learn the dangers of the snuff film business. The mutilated bodies turning up across California are nothing compared to the revenge-driven imagination of a victim's father. Bodily fluids splatter the pages of Snuff as glimpses of Jack's abusive childhood and shattered dreams build up to an unforgettable climax. Snuff is by far the single most disturbing piece of literature I have ever read. -Gabrielle S. Faust, FearZone ...One of the most stunning finales I have read in recent times. -Jude Felton, Fatally Yours

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Splatterpunk, Serial Killer, Horror Thriller, Thriller, Crime

184 pages, Paperback

First published May 17, 2008

About the author

Now living in Philadelphia, Adam is a film school dropout, former reporter, editor and publisher. He lives with his cats and fills his spare time reading, gambling, sharing bottles of whiskey with Eric Enck and taking in an absurd amount of horror films. “Snuff” is Adam’s first professional venture into the world of fiction.

Reviews

[Carla ☺Did I Say That☺ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 **Holy Shit*** Stars!!!

Wow... to say this book was disturbing is a understatement.....not for the faint of heart!!..You've been warned!!!

[JaHy☝Hold the Fairy Dust · Rating 5 out of 5]

** 4.5 "WHAT THE SNUFF ?" STARS**



. . . For the love of humanity, I surely hope not.

I really don't know how to review this book without traumatizing readers whom wouldn't touch this book with a ten foot pole. Out of respect for those who wish to keep their sanity, as well as their last meal in tact, I won't rehash the fuckery (and there was quite a bit) which took place within the story. Besides,the title pretty much speaks for itself. Do you really want to know more?



. . .Mind bleach anyone?

Now, for those readers who enjoy a little fictional debauchery every now and then, I say "1-click it". You won't be disappointed. ... but if you are, kindly unfriend me ... Just kidding!

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[Gabrielle · Rating 5 out of 5]

The other day I overheard someone saying that they thought the world was a much more violent place than ever before in the history of the human race. This made me pause. My gut reaction was to agree, but then, I began to wonder: is this really true? Is the world more violent? Is the human race more vicious than previous centuries? Or are we merely more open about the violence that takes place to the point that we have become jaded to the horrors humans inflict on one another? Serial killers are nothing new to our species; mass murders have been around as long as history allows us to recount. We have tried to place labels on certain individuals who have caught our attention such as Elizabeth Bathory, Vlad the Impaler, Jack the Ripper or the Servant Girl Annihilator, but the truth of the matter is vicious serial crimes have plagued our race since the beginning of civilization. They went unidentified as such simply because superstition and fear kept people ignorant and cowering from truly investigating the source of the violence. It is speculated that many supernatural creature legends such as those surrounding werewolves, vampires and demons were the product of tales woven to explain series of horrendous murders. Even the Brothers Grimm told the tale of an old woman who lived in the woods and ate little children. READ THE REST OF THIS REVIEW ON FEAR ZONE: http://fearzone.com/blog/snuff-book

[Preston Pollard · Rating 5 out of 5]

There were times while reading this that I developed an estranged erection and my hand proceeded to comfort it's existence while I stare into my own soul questioning my own moral integrity... It was a good book

[Diane · Rating 5 out of 5]

When I purchased this book I had some idea what I was letting myself in for...lets face it... the black cover and the title "SNUFF" says it all,but I was strongly surprised with the whole story line,I wasn't expecting something so engrossing that left me wanting to keep on reading,the snuff scenes were somewhat disturbing and very graphic,but they were needed!! I loved this book,it was so well written,totally fucked up,disgusting and shocking...the ending was something I never even imagined happening...a real twist.
5***** Solid Shinning Stars From Me.

[Greg · Rating 3 out of 5]

Possibly the most brutal book I've ever read. I have to give this credit at coming up with some sick as fuck shit that I have never thought of, and at times making me feel slightly uncomfortable. My mind wanders sometimes into dark places and comes up with ways to torture and kill people (in a horror movie way, not in an actual way), and usually my imagination is more brutal than anything I see in movies or read, but here the two authors make my thoughts seem pedestrian and tame (although to be fair to my own imagination it doesn't dwell in the places of violent rape and sexual assaults). If you like things super-violent then this book is probably for you.

But.

There are some problems. The first is that the book is in some serious need of editing, both in it's content and in it's formatting. It's lame to say but there is something lost when you have to re-read a simple sentence a few times because it just doesn't make any sense. I know I'm the pot calling the kettle black here since I never edit anything of my reviews, but these are reviews for a silly website not a published book. The editing thing could have been simply fixed because it's all minor stuff, but it's the kind of thing that irks me. The formatting really needed to be worked on though. Some paragraphs aren't indented, sometimes this makes it difficult to know what's going on with who is speaking. Sometime chapters are also annoyingly justified, where a short sentence ends up looking like this. That is one of my huge pet peeves of self-published books and zines.

There is also a huge difference between the two writers, and I'm guessing that they each wrote different parts of the book. The book is broken up into six parts, and sometimes the parts of the book have what feel like continuity problems with the part that came before, sometimes not though. But it is pretty clear that one of the writers is a more proficient writer, but who gets caught up in the 'psychology' of the main character a bit too much, while the other writer is much sloppier but has the really sick and twisted imagination. This isn't a criticism really, just an observation.

My big criticism for the book though is that the description of the book on the back cover be changed. You wrote in a pretty ironic and fun little twist into the book, why all but give it away on the back blurb?

I almost hate to say it but this book is a lot of fun, and makes things like the Marquise de Sade and Clockwork Orange seem almost Victorian.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sick. Twisted. Gross. Fascinating. Repugnant. Disturbing. Horrifying. Brutal. Revolting. Dark. Distasteful. Vulgar.

LOVED IT!! LOVED IT!! LOVED IT!!

[Kristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sick shit! I love this stuff!

[Nurse Nightmare · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dark, twisted, disturbing.... a quick read with lots of stuff going on to keep you turning the pages. Oh and that ending, my face was like ooooooo dayummm!

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tried to get hold of a copy of this a few months ago but it got lost in the post or something. So I was real happy when I got a copy for my birthday.
I had to read it straight away and all I can say is wow usually when I read reviews and it says the book is really fucked up it doesn't turn out so, well not in my opinion anyway.
This really is though, I thought I was good at thinking up ways to torture people (I watch way to many horror movies) but nothing like these guys.
Kick ass book if you can stomach it and hope you guys write more.

[Arthur · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel there is much to be said rationally speaking many books has as I’ve read had better preparation of plots or climaxes than pages and pages of extreme description of the violence that is involved in snuff films this book presents. I’m not talking about other snuff film books. But about this one there’s a garish and morbid sense of humour in the subject, its outlines with few details of how such things could happen. Supposing that John (aka Jack) was to become such a force because he had his lurid upbringing matching his psychotic behaviour to other serial killers and well known is that serial killers were often adopted having an unhappy childhood and killed one of their parents. Or something like that. So not to add any spoilers this is a story mainly about a snuff film industry beginnings by a sick individual who had help by his best friend who wasn’t even a good friend but that they found they had the same thirst for snuff that they worked good together.

Death’s Door by Michael Slade has plot. Mystery and suspense that can relate with readers is amoung another thing. Certainly I’d prefer if Snuff had been longer or descriptive but then I suppose there was reasons of minimaling the story to actions and relating them as details of facts of what buying snuffs would be like. After all we don’t need porn to become so bad the actors die before the credits.

[Arne · Rating 4 out of 5]

To get this out of the way : this is NOT THE SICKEST book ever created. With people like Lee or White populating the horror scene it is hard to come up with something that outgrosses another. Sure, you can outgross Hostel or Braindead but hardcore horror in literature can't possibly get anymore extreme than it already is. Now with that chopped up and thrown in the bin : this book is very extreme, as extreme as a Lee-story, maybe it doesn't have as much gore as a Lee-story but it comes close.
What this book gets right though is creating an extremely gripping read : hallucinatory, haunting, nightmarish, twisted and well written. It creates imaginitive set pieces ( probably too imaginative for a book about 'snuff' ) and punches you right in the gut from time to time.
I will never, ever forget the bit with the dog. And no, this scene isn't anything sexual or perverted. It's all out disturbing , nightmarish yet emotional and almost made my eyes wattery ( and I don't consider myself soft or anything).

[Amy Galaviz · Rating 4 out of 5]

By far the most disturbing book I have ever read. The graphic murder descriptions in this book - the fact that a person even has the capacity to imagine such sick torture is disturbing in itself. Except for several instances of misspellings and incorrect grammer (seems the book skipped over the editing process), it was generally well written, had a good plot, and gratifying (if yet sick and twisted) ending.

[Gizmatic Cantor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every now and then I want to read something horrific and absolutely disgusting. This is by far the sickest book that I have ever read. WARNING: This is not Stephen King or Dean Koontz.....when your aunt Tammy says she LOVES a good horror book...this probably isn't what she's referring to...read at your own risk!!!

[Jason Bradley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is shocking and squicky but still awesome in the way it comes full circle. I wouldn't recommend this to many people since most would find it too much but I have to say that I enjoyed it.

[Stuart Bray · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book that inspired me to become the extreme horror author I am today.

[Xtina Reads · Rating 1 out of 5]

I tried because I’ve heard good things but I DNF’d after a few chapters because I couldn’t stand the fucking writing. It’s a no for me,dawg.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have to give this book a five star rating because the thought process that had to go into creating such a disturbing work of fiction truly is amazing. I've read and written some violent things before, but the things in this book are horrifically detailed and demented. In other words, this definitely pushed some limits with my psyche, and that's not easy to do.

Jack and Mikey make movies for high paying clients, the kind of movies that cost tens of thousands of dollars and don't end with the main star still alive. These custom made snuff films are the product of a twisted mind with an abusive childhood and a sexual deviant, both who become wrapped up in a sort of addiction to murder, rape, and torture. When they make a movie for a client and end up using his daughter in the starring role, the story takes a vengeful and surprising turn.

From the beginning scene, I wondered how far the authors would push this and they didn't disappoint. The images are graphic. I remember when the movie "Hostel" was released and people thought it was graphic, violent, and disturbing. If "Snuff" were made into a movie and done word for word exactly as the book reads with no censorship, it would make "Hostel" look like an episode of "Sesame Street."

[Mercedes · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the most brutal, violent, graphic, and shocking books I’ve ever read. It was so deliciously good I read it in one sitting. The authors are very descriptive and inventive in their killing and torture, the bad guys are built great and you hate them as you should. The brutality is impossible to rip your eyes from the pages, you must keep reading. Now this isn’t everyone’s cup of tea and it’s not supernatural or other monsters killing, it’s the worst kind…people. I will never forget this book and I look forward to other works by these authors. I’ve only read two other books similar in brutal violence graphically described like this, and . Along with those books, Snuff will adorn my keepers shelf.

And for the record, I do not know either of the authors and yes I was very shocked and horrified from the first page. But that’s also what made it so I couldn’t put it down.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just wanted to let those who read SNUFF (by Eric Enck and Adam Huber) aware, that a PREQUEL to the book will be coming out in October 2014.

So until then, keep flipping your mattresses... and thanks to everyone who did enjoy it, and also to those who didn't but gave it a spin anyway. Love ya!

[William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Eric...You are one sick dude! How do you think this stuff up? Do you have nightmares at night? Wow...Quick but very intense read. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!!!

[DestructoGirl · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this on a dare.
It got me out of my comfort zone for that it gets four stars.

[Steve · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book might have been graphic, but that's what added to its appeal. It was well written and keep my interest all the way through. Its not for the fragile minded, but i highly recommend the read.

[BiblioBabes.ca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kat did a great review of this book, check it out here:

http://www.bibliobabes.ca/2/post/2011...

Xx

[Ffranzz · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is at once very bad and kinda... good?

Its subject matter is unflinchingly disgusting and very graphic, which is nice because many "disturbing" books are only so in their topics, but not in their depictions of it, which is understandable, I guess, for not everybody likes to actually see the atrocities committed first-hand.

But... This book also made me cringe a lot. At times, it had the tone of a teenager trying to be edgy and scary, though once I got past the cringe, it was also weirdly evocative in its explorations of dark human desires and the need for violence, which in this book was almost always entangled with sex and the desecration of (mostly female) bodies.

Most of the reviews I've read about this book seem to focus only on its subject matter to give it five stars, which is understandable, but I honestly feel cheated, because this book was SO BADLY edited (or rather, not edited at all) and not very cheap to begin with. The typos and inconsistencies were really off-putting, I mean, even fanfiction has beta readers, so the fact that this is apparently a self-published book does not justify its lack of editing to me. I almost felt the need to e-mail the authors and offer to fix it myself, because I feel like this could have been an amazing book had the story been properly told.

Anyways, I have a lot of thoughts on this, but this is already too long of a review for such a teeny tiny book, so I'll just add that it was still a powerful ride... sorry, a "tour de force." One that, yet again, I would not recommend to anyone.

[Alessandro Hand-glider-Hawthorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very cool book -- better than I thought it would be.

Basically, two guys (Jack and Mickey, the former of who had a pretty bad childhood) make snuff films; one guy doesn't like the two, because of something that happened in the said films; a collection of random women get tortured and murdered; some other stuff.

The story was pretty good, in my opinion, and the writing wasn't too bad. The worst part, though, was the dialogue, which at parts took me out.

Anyway, I still loved it.

Luckily, this book knows that it is better to slowly ramp up the depravity as it goes on than start high and only go downhill. Personally, I would have liked a bit more of gore (especially in the earlier parts), but it still delivers on some cool splatter, so I don't care too much.

Yay, review over!

5/5 !

[N. Poe · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are hints of something genuine here, but even those sporadic moments come across as little else than Bret Easton Ellis by the way of Garth Marenghi. Like most works in the extreme horror cannon, the narrative breathlessly propels toward an aggravating tedium. Too eager to be mean-spirited, the cruelty of the narrative's acts are rendered powerless on arrival by the limits of its scope, which suggests a media diet consisting entirely of substandard gore films and skirting the homepage of PornHub.

[Hudson Clark · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read a lot of horror books so I am practically numb to violence in literature….or so I thought.

There are multiple scenes in this book that made me insanely uncomfortable and I liked that it doesn’t just feature violence but also dives deep into the two main characters and their screwed up upbringings.

And although I kind of predicted it, I loved the twist near the end.

[Dennis Teufel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wow...

[Kimberly · Rating 2 out of 5]

Brutal & a generally uncomfortable read. Dropped to 2.5 due to predictable ending.