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Havoc Swims Jaded.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publishers Weekly

| September 11, 2006 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Havoc Swims Jaded DAVID J. SCHOW. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $25 (296p) ISBN 978-1-59606-067-8

Like "The Narrative of Dr. Shackle and Mr. Lye," an invented tale of horror described in one of this book's 13 stories, the contents of Schow's latest collection (after Zombie Jam) seesaw between "elbow-jabbing one-liners and almost/clinically detached slaughter and corpse disposal." Most unfold events that are grim and ghastly, but never so bad that Schow can't tease a thread of graveyard humor out of their horrors. In "The Absolute Last of the Ultra-Spooky, …

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