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Perverse
When 21-year-old Heather Forrest accompanies three of her friends on a weekend trip up to Vermont, she has no idea what she’s getting into. Because, during a brief stop in the western Massachusetts woods, the girls get kidnapped and things go rapidly downhill from there. Soon Heather and her friends are fighting for their lives, fighting to survive the most perverted and impossible situation imaginable. And meanwhile, Hank Rollins is also in the woods, hunting the unholy monster that killed his wife and son . . . and he’s hunting it with live human bait. Oh yes, there will be blood. And there will be terror and buckets of gore also. And truly horrible atrocities will happen. Most definitely so.
185 pages, Paperback
Published February 4, 2020
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Wol-vriey
70 books202 followersWol-vriey writes eXXXtreme horror fiction, and also some surrealist stuff.
To date, he has published over forty novels in both genres.
His horror novels include: EnterPAINment, LGBT, The Virgin, Marriage, Women, Nightmare Fuel 1 & 2, Haunted House XXX 1 & 2, and How To Succeed in Life.
On the surrealist side of things, he is the author of Vegan Zombie Apocalypse, Vegan Vampire Vaginas, Vagina Mundi, and the disturbing and unsettling Dr. Orgasm.
To date, he has published over forty novels in both genres.
His horror novels include: EnterPAINment, LGBT, The Virgin, Marriage, Women, Nightmare Fuel 1 & 2, Haunted House XXX 1 & 2, and How To Succeed in Life.
On the surrealist side of things, he is the author of Vegan Zombie Apocalypse, Vegan Vampire Vaginas, Vagina Mundi, and the disturbing and unsettling Dr. Orgasm.
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February 21, 2020
I'm not much into the Bizarro fiction, though at times I might take a novel at hand to get a glimpse into the world of far out weird horror. This might well be the reason Wol-vriey slipped my attention so far.
But always on the search of the good ol' gore 'n' splatter horror novel, I couldn't resist when asked to review Wol-vriey's latest work "Perverse". The author already has an impressive list of novels - as much as I could gather so far, his older works are more Bizarro than his newer efforts.
"Perverse" still has a bit of the Bizarro vibe - with some weird and sick sh!t coming your way - but don't be fooled: what you'll get here is a full blast of very nasty backwood slasher horror!
I have been warned aforehand that the book contains explicit scenes of sex and violence, but heck, that's just the depraved stuff I'm looking for, and I wasn't disappointed.
The content:
Danni invites her friends Heather, Maude and Katie to accompany her on a trip to her ex-boyfriend (because, maybe, there's still a chance, for sex at least). Little do they know one of them will take them on a short-cut through life...
...and soon find themselves in the clutches of a perverted cannibal family with ties to Satanism. They have to face death - and worse...
A second plot line around a demon called Gutter and Hank, who wants to take revenge on said demon for murdering Hanks family, intertwines with the story about the girls and brings some variety.
I have not been disappointed in reading this novel. "Perverse" fully lives up to its title, and you'll get all the sleaze and naughtiness you can expect from this sort of story.
Wol-vriey's style reminds me a lot of Laymon (without being a copycat): fluid and the author doesn't tamper around much with his characters - they have to go through all the horrible stuff their creator can think of. The plot is an easy one without much depth, but it moves on in a fast pace.
There's kind of a jovial undertone to the writing, even as Wol-vriey describes some gruesome, hard-to-take scenes, I could easily imagine the author snickering when writing these passages, thinking: "When this doesn't shock my readers, nothing will".
For my tastes, I would've loved a somewhat darker approach, especially when Wol-vriey sets the cannibal family's dialogues in these "teasing-each-other" way as if they were a common, normal family. I'm aware the author probably did that to make an even more perverse contrast to their vile actions, still it left me a bit "bifurcated" (ahem) because they seemed a bit too constructed (like some others of the dialogues), too set up.
Still, the story is solid and fun to read. The cauldron mix of backwoods depravity, cannibalism, rape, incest, devil worshipping etc. blends together very well and doesn't drift into the completely absurd too far (well, except maybe for the character "Toilet"; but I already mentioned you will get glimpses of Wol-vriey's Bizarro past).
If you're into the kind of depraved stuff like Richard Laymon and Brian Smyth write, I would highly recommend you give this novel a try.
If you're faint-hearted or have strong morals, though - keep your hands off!
Perverse is as nasty as it's title lets presume.
But always on the search of the good ol' gore 'n' splatter horror novel, I couldn't resist when asked to review Wol-vriey's latest work "Perverse". The author already has an impressive list of novels - as much as I could gather so far, his older works are more Bizarro than his newer efforts.
"Perverse" still has a bit of the Bizarro vibe - with some weird and sick sh!t coming your way - but don't be fooled: what you'll get here is a full blast of very nasty backwood slasher horror!
I have been warned aforehand that the book contains explicit scenes of sex and violence, but heck, that's just the depraved stuff I'm looking for, and I wasn't disappointed.
The content:
Danni invites her friends Heather, Maude and Katie to accompany her on a trip to her ex-boyfriend (because, maybe, there's still a chance, for sex at least). Little do they know one of them will take them on a short-cut through life...
...and soon find themselves in the clutches of a perverted cannibal family with ties to Satanism. They have to face death - and worse...
A second plot line around a demon called Gutter and Hank, who wants to take revenge on said demon for murdering Hanks family, intertwines with the story about the girls and brings some variety.
I have not been disappointed in reading this novel. "Perverse" fully lives up to its title, and you'll get all the sleaze and naughtiness you can expect from this sort of story.
Wol-vriey's style reminds me a lot of Laymon (without being a copycat): fluid and the author doesn't tamper around much with his characters - they have to go through all the horrible stuff their creator can think of. The plot is an easy one without much depth, but it moves on in a fast pace.
There's kind of a jovial undertone to the writing, even as Wol-vriey describes some gruesome, hard-to-take scenes, I could easily imagine the author snickering when writing these passages, thinking: "When this doesn't shock my readers, nothing will".
For my tastes, I would've loved a somewhat darker approach, especially when Wol-vriey sets the cannibal family's dialogues in these "teasing-each-other" way as if they were a common, normal family. I'm aware the author probably did that to make an even more perverse contrast to their vile actions, still it left me a bit "bifurcated" (ahem) because they seemed a bit too constructed (like some others of the dialogues), too set up.
Still, the story is solid and fun to read. The cauldron mix of backwoods depravity, cannibalism, rape, incest, devil worshipping etc. blends together very well and doesn't drift into the completely absurd too far (well, except maybe for the character "Toilet"; but I already mentioned you will get glimpses of Wol-vriey's Bizarro past).
If you're into the kind of depraved stuff like Richard Laymon and Brian Smyth write, I would highly recommend you give this novel a try.
If you're faint-hearted or have strong morals, though - keep your hands off!
Perverse is as nasty as it's title lets presume.
February 21, 2020
Well well well , a very disturbing graphic account of backwoods cannibals
Very much in the vein of Jack Ketchums Off Season, bit slow to start but once it did was very dark, would have liked to find out more about the Gutter and the cannibals patriarch but overall
A very gory,sick twisted blast 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Very much in the vein of Jack Ketchums Off Season, bit slow to start but once it did was very dark, would have liked to find out more about the Gutter and the cannibals patriarch but overall
A very gory,sick twisted blast 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
February 27, 2020
Action packed and splatter filled story set in the backwoods. A quartet of young female friends takes the proverbial bad idea shortcut on their trip and end up in a nightmare reminiscent of "Off Season" or even "The Summer I Died".
Thanks to the author for this copy in return for an honest review.
Thanks to the author for this copy in return for an honest review.
September 1, 2020
Another great read
This is a dark and brutal read full of nasty and sick minds that trick and fool. The characters are great and the storyline is just as good. It's non stop nasty and beastly. But wonderfully imaginative and with lots to keep you entertained and creeped out. It not for the faint of heart or easily offended. But a great read and would definitely recommend.
This is a dark and brutal read full of nasty and sick minds that trick and fool. The characters are great and the storyline is just as good. It's non stop nasty and beastly. But wonderfully imaginative and with lots to keep you entertained and creeped out. It not for the faint of heart or easily offended. But a great read and would definitely recommend.
February 18, 2020
Chalk another one up for Wol-vriey. This is a thrilling, non-stop, blood filled ride. 4 female friends head out for a nice long weekend away and run into a family that is out of this world. This is a family of cannibals and freaks. They take the girls hostage and the torture, blood, sex and weirdness start. The story is dark but humorous in places. If your familiar with the author you will not be disappointed. He throws some twists and turns into a gore filled book with great characters and a good backstory. It also appears that we may see more of this bizarre family in future books.
February 15, 2020
F*cked up and funny in equal measures, as usual. I could almost hear the dueling banjos in the background.
July 8, 2021
I need to leave this crazy family. I just have to—I gotta get away from these people for good before I go nuts!
It took four short months for a group of girls; twenty one year olds Katie Hemingway and Heather Forrest, twenty two years old Maude Mason and Danni Melcher to begin an embankment that’ll traumatically later everyone’s lives forever. New to college and seeking something more then the lives they held, Katie was thrilled at the idea of a trip through scenic upper Massachusetts, and willingly allowed all the girls to come along. Pulling over after taking a detour, Katie slinked off and into the woods for an impromptu bathroom break, and as her absence was taking longer and longer, Heather convinced the others to begin searching for their missing member. Eyes wide for any sign of Katie, they were horrified to see a man watching them from the wood line, before frantically shifting into a creature of nightmares with lengthy limbs and dozens upon dozens of sharp teeth. Seeing it take off across the street and into the woods Katie vanished into, forced all the girls to makeshift weapons and a blind chase. Stumbling across Katie brought another revelation, that they never really knew the girl behind the wheel as she found herself armed with a handgun. Now as they walked back to the street, they see additional oddities in the form of Runt and Six-Six, apparently Katie’s brothers. Kidnapped by the sexually fueled deviants, it took everything in them not to be murdered on the spot. Blindfolded the duration of the trip, they opened their eyes to a cabin high in the mountains and heavily secluded. Herded like cattle, Maybe struggled to contain her tongue and composure as the sexual assaults continued in their bodies once being stripped naked. With very few option, the trio waited in angst for Eclecta Hemingway, their mother, to make her grand appearance. Yet looks can be deceiving as she appeared to not be a day over nineteen, yet claimed to posses an ability to live forever. Talks of 340 plus years of life and ties to the Salem Witch Trials, Mauve couldn’t be pushed any further and spit into Eclecta’s face, earning her a knife to the throat before being expertly butchered for her flesh. As the other two girls, Heather and Danni watched one tragedy after the other, they laid eyes on Pet (Katie’s heavily deformed son), who by all appearances could’ve been a normal animal, yet still remained bound with sexual impulses and a desire to please. With nowhere left to run, being compliant may be the only way to stay alive.
Hank Rollins Snr. wasn’t married anymore, nor was he a father anymore. That last trip to this place had changed his life for the worst.
Hank Rollins watched in horror as the life he spent the past nineteen years making was torn from his arms. His wife Josephine and his son both slain by a mysterious creature - The Gutter, their stomachs ripped to shreds and hollow cavities all that remained. Vowing from that moment on to avenge his family, he would stop at nothing, no matter how morally wrong it was to hunt and being that creature to death. Abducting a young eighteen year old, Jory Haines, a gas station clerk to use as a bait to lurk the Gutter from hiding. Even with the offering of $10,000, the lucrative offer brought very little comfort to the terrified young man. As he slipped from his sight, he encountered the Gutter and missed the protection of his abductor really quickly. After Danni and Heather murdered Pet, they snuck away and managed to get outside before returning for the ladder they needed. Captured by Katie, Dannie was stabbed to death before Heather ran. Murdering Katie with a machete offered her an option of freedom, one short lived before running into Hank in the woods. Tempting him with a sexual favor, she saw the doppelgänger of herself as the Gutter stole her identity, which she used as Six-Six and Runt abducted the Gutter and not herself. Now with a pocketful of cash, she needed the world to hear her tale. As the Gutter took her place in punishment it slaughtered everyone except Six-Six, until his mother ripped his heart from his chest to use to heal herself. Using a magic power of hers, she erased the past ten hours of memory from sheathed, leaving her with a blank mind at the police station. Now, needing to start over with a family she turned to the deformation of the Demon that was her husband, and accepted his touch for the 9 hour pregnancies he could offer her.
“We call it the ‘Gutter’ ‘cos it eats guts—human guts,”
It took four short months for a group of girls; twenty one year olds Katie Hemingway and Heather Forrest, twenty two years old Maude Mason and Danni Melcher to begin an embankment that’ll traumatically later everyone’s lives forever. New to college and seeking something more then the lives they held, Katie was thrilled at the idea of a trip through scenic upper Massachusetts, and willingly allowed all the girls to come along. Pulling over after taking a detour, Katie slinked off and into the woods for an impromptu bathroom break, and as her absence was taking longer and longer, Heather convinced the others to begin searching for their missing member. Eyes wide for any sign of Katie, they were horrified to see a man watching them from the wood line, before frantically shifting into a creature of nightmares with lengthy limbs and dozens upon dozens of sharp teeth. Seeing it take off across the street and into the woods Katie vanished into, forced all the girls to makeshift weapons and a blind chase. Stumbling across Katie brought another revelation, that they never really knew the girl behind the wheel as she found herself armed with a handgun. Now as they walked back to the street, they see additional oddities in the form of Runt and Six-Six, apparently Katie’s brothers. Kidnapped by the sexually fueled deviants, it took everything in them not to be murdered on the spot. Blindfolded the duration of the trip, they opened their eyes to a cabin high in the mountains and heavily secluded. Herded like cattle, Maybe struggled to contain her tongue and composure as the sexual assaults continued in their bodies once being stripped naked. With very few option, the trio waited in angst for Eclecta Hemingway, their mother, to make her grand appearance. Yet looks can be deceiving as she appeared to not be a day over nineteen, yet claimed to posses an ability to live forever. Talks of 340 plus years of life and ties to the Salem Witch Trials, Mauve couldn’t be pushed any further and spit into Eclecta’s face, earning her a knife to the throat before being expertly butchered for her flesh. As the other two girls, Heather and Danni watched one tragedy after the other, they laid eyes on Pet (Katie’s heavily deformed son), who by all appearances could’ve been a normal animal, yet still remained bound with sexual impulses and a desire to please. With nowhere left to run, being compliant may be the only way to stay alive.
Hank Rollins Snr. wasn’t married anymore, nor was he a father anymore. That last trip to this place had changed his life for the worst.
Hank Rollins watched in horror as the life he spent the past nineteen years making was torn from his arms. His wife Josephine and his son both slain by a mysterious creature - The Gutter, their stomachs ripped to shreds and hollow cavities all that remained. Vowing from that moment on to avenge his family, he would stop at nothing, no matter how morally wrong it was to hunt and being that creature to death. Abducting a young eighteen year old, Jory Haines, a gas station clerk to use as a bait to lurk the Gutter from hiding. Even with the offering of $10,000, the lucrative offer brought very little comfort to the terrified young man. As he slipped from his sight, he encountered the Gutter and missed the protection of his abductor really quickly. After Danni and Heather murdered Pet, they snuck away and managed to get outside before returning for the ladder they needed. Captured by Katie, Dannie was stabbed to death before Heather ran. Murdering Katie with a machete offered her an option of freedom, one short lived before running into Hank in the woods. Tempting him with a sexual favor, she saw the doppelgänger of herself as the Gutter stole her identity, which she used as Six-Six and Runt abducted the Gutter and not herself. Now with a pocketful of cash, she needed the world to hear her tale. As the Gutter took her place in punishment it slaughtered everyone except Six-Six, until his mother ripped his heart from his chest to use to heal herself. Using a magic power of hers, she erased the past ten hours of memory from sheathed, leaving her with a blank mind at the police station. Now, needing to start over with a family she turned to the deformation of the Demon that was her husband, and accepted his touch for the 9 hour pregnancies he could offer her.
“We call it the ‘Gutter’ ‘cos it eats guts—human guts,”
February 29, 2020
Some books are like a good horror B-movie. They get to the point quickly and, once things start to turn nasty, we know we are going to have a lot of fun. “Perverse” is just that kind of book, and I have enjoyed it as I used to enjoy classic Craven's or Hooper's flicks back in the day when I was a teenager.
The novel begins with a familiar scenario for any horror fan: four twenty-something girls on a weekend road trip up to Vermont. An unscheduled stop in the middle of nowhere triggers a nightmare full of gore and sex, together with a number of plot twists which make it impossible to take your eyes off the page.
While reading “Perverse”, I couldn't help thinking about the work of authors such as Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon and (my all time favourite) Edward Lee. However, Wol-vriey writes with a distinct and personal style, one which combines fluency with a bizarre touch that offers the reader a hell of a ride.
The only flaw I've found in the book is one it shares with many books and films of the genre. Some of the decisions made by the characters are difficult to understand and it could be said that they defy logic. Nevertheless, since most horror stories rely on the absurdity of their protagonists' actions, we can hardly consider it as a major fault, can we?
I thank the author for sending me a copy of his book in return for an honest review. It's been the first Wol-vriey's novel I've read, and it will certainly not be the last.
The novel begins with a familiar scenario for any horror fan: four twenty-something girls on a weekend road trip up to Vermont. An unscheduled stop in the middle of nowhere triggers a nightmare full of gore and sex, together with a number of plot twists which make it impossible to take your eyes off the page.
While reading “Perverse”, I couldn't help thinking about the work of authors such as Jack Ketchum, Richard Laymon and (my all time favourite) Edward Lee. However, Wol-vriey writes with a distinct and personal style, one which combines fluency with a bizarre touch that offers the reader a hell of a ride.
The only flaw I've found in the book is one it shares with many books and films of the genre. Some of the decisions made by the characters are difficult to understand and it could be said that they defy logic. Nevertheless, since most horror stories rely on the absurdity of their protagonists' actions, we can hardly consider it as a major fault, can we?
I thank the author for sending me a copy of his book in return for an honest review. It's been the first Wol-vriey's novel I've read, and it will certainly not be the last.
July 3, 2020
Many thanks to Wol-vriey for the book! Really cool, reminds me a lot of some Jack Ketchum stuff meets Edward Lee, which is high praise! Kicks off pretty fast too, then just keeps firing off to the end, no time wasted in this thing! Give it a look if you like some gore.
January 26, 2022
great read
I have never read a book quit like this one. It has all the gory fun of chainsaw massacre and then a mix of something all its own. Very pleasantly surprised. I can’t wait to read more by this author
I have never read a book quit like this one. It has all the gory fun of chainsaw massacre and then a mix of something all its own. Very pleasantly surprised. I can’t wait to read more by this author
October 26, 2022
The title of the book says it all!!
August 26, 2024
First book ive read by this author and it was amazing. A perfect mix of true splatterpunk and horror similar to stephen king. A page turner and cant wait to read more by Wol-vriey.
October 2, 2024
Backwoods cannibals Ala Mr. Ketchum. Splatterpunk craziness 3.9⭐️
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