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SORROW: The Uncut Author's Edition
By John Turi
Medium Rare Books 0-9711162-1-0
$14.95
SoftcoverJohn Turi claims that this is a volume of short stories and poetry that you read while you fuck a corpse. Hmmm. As great as the book is, I don't think the corpse is going to soften up. You might want to flex the muscles to loosen the rigor mortis.
But here is what he has for ya:
A Vietnam vet returns to his hometown for a funereal in "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
In "Recollection," a bored shrink listens to his female patients crappy and abused past.
"And I Wait" a killer awaits the electric chair.
A recently deceased spirit begins a journey of healing the world in "Jizo."
A couple satisfies their violent sexual cravings with a neighbor in "Welcome to the Feeding."
A dying man finds salvation from a homeless man in "A Warm, Dry Place."
In "Little Boy Grape Juice," a boy loses his family and sanity.
We follow a Bundy/Bateman like killer in "The Killing Mind."
In a nursery rhyme fashion, a killer plays games with two boys that he baby-sits in "The Cat Who Fucked Rats."
The stork that delivered him haunts a "Damaged Little Fucker".
"Drain, Drain, Drain the Corpse" is a how-to on embalming the dead.
And a Junkie shoots up in "Dead by Nine."
There is some great over the top violence in this collection but there is also a lot of spirituality in it. Turi grasps the human spirit as it falls down a dark hole or climbs up to the light.
The poetry that runs between the stories is hypnotic, erotic, and captivating. There is a controversy surrounding a poem called C.U.N.T. but I don't see it. It is actually somewhat romantic.
"Sorrow" is an extremely cool collection of stories and poems about pain and healing from a pioneer in extreme horror fiction who is bound to create a brilliant novel in the future.
Review by Mike Purfield
Critical Raves for Mike Purfield's "Dirty Boots."
"If you're looking for a good read, something you've never experienced before, then this is the book for you." Paul Kane of Terror Tales.
Rated 3 out of 4 by Unhinged Magazine.
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