 My work here on YouTube is supported by viewers Please follow the links in the description below where you can make one-time donations Or you can go to the 30-second sci-fi website and pledge a small monthly amount to become a sponsor My first pick for horror month this year is a book that I do not recommend. I Showed this book off when I bought it one of the most remarkable things about it Is that the book cover glows in the dark and I found that out by surprise I bought it because I thought it was a collection of stories and I always feel like short stories are the best way to introduce yourself to an author you haven't read before But then somehow I didn't notice it right there on the cover. It says a novel But then it turned out to be both It was a collection of stories that the author had smushed together Into a novel form with a loose wraparound story The wraparound story started off really interesting The stories started off really strong. They did not stay strong The quote-unquote novel did not have a payoff with the the biggest problem The reason that I don't recommend the book is because of the nature of the stories. The writing style was quite good I'd never read Palaniak before but his writing style is quite good. His stories though were so disgusting so violent each story one after another was about People doing the most horrible things to each other. It was pretty clear that the author was writing these things Because it's a fetish of his Not because he was trying to make any points or tell good stories It just had a really disgusting feel of fetishness about it Ironically the one story in the book that I was most impressed with didn't have any violence or sex or anything like that at all It was called it was called the nightmare box. It was an example of how a good author can write a horror story without gore And I would recommend that story on its own Otherwise forget about this book Please remember to press that like button it helps my videos get seen and then subscribe so you can come back next time I do science fiction book TV and movie reviews all the time and please consider becoming a patron There's a link in the description below