![]() ![]() ![]() It is a setting that is clearly fantasy but still very much reflective of the place we live. ![]() ![]() Like The Golden Compass (or similar, lesser books) Lee builds a world that is both strange, but familiar. I compared Lee’s ultra-violent trip through hell to a children’s book. Lee’s book is less Takashi Miike’s Ichi the Killer and more Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials. In truth what I got was something much stranger and, in my opinion, much more interesting. Whatever the explanation I planed on rectifying the problem when I bought City Infernal.Ĭity Infernal is the first book of Lee’s popular “Infernal Mythos.” I like to know very little about books before I dive in (you’ve seen how neurotic about spoilers I can get), but because Lee is known in the horror community for his stomach-churning gore (everything I had read prior to this confirms this) I figured that I was in for a sick, if a bit guilty, pleasure. It’s probably not his reputation for writing “extreme horror,” as Laymon and Ketchum are pretty extreme and are regular staples in my literary diet. Then why have I been into horror for so long and mostly shied away from one of today’s big authors? I don’t have a good answer for you. A smattering of short stories, his novella The Cyesolagniac and his segment of Triage (which is a collection of three novellas by Lee, Jack Ketchum and Richard Laymon). I’ve read tragically little of Edward Lee’s work. ![]()
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