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Bleed on Me

3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 · rating details · 11 ratings · 3 reviews

Chris Taylor is a good-for-nothing loser, living off his late pornstar mother's inheritance in a rat-hole apartment. Chris has absolutely nothing going for him until the night he decides to complain to his neighbors about their pounding music--and finds all but one of them butchered. But the bodies don't stay dead, they reanimate and reform in bizarre, horrible ways, and n...more

Paperback, 106 pages

Published August 16th 2012 by Abattoir Press

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May 06, 2013 BungleGrind rated it 5 of 5 stars

I love discovering new authors to read. My tastes pretty much run all over the place like diarrhea too. As long as something looks remotely interesting and is not in a foreign language I'm willing to give it a read. I have always seemed to have a far more intense appreciation for things that are on the darker side or might be considered required reading for the literary insane. I have been wanting to check out Shane Mckenzie for a while simply based on the fact that I have always heard he is way...more I love discovering new authors to read. My tastes pretty much run all over the place like diarrhea too. As long as something looks remotely interesting and is not in a foreign language I'm willing to give it a read. I have always seemed to have a far more intense appreciation for things that are on the darker side or might be considered required reading for the literary insane. I have been wanting to check out Shane Mckenzie for a while simply based on the fact that I have always heard he is way over the top. Let me quickly dispel any curiosity right here and now and say this expectation was met like a fist to a jawline when I got a hold of my first Shane Mckenzie book, Bleed on me..... or maybe I should say, when it got a hold of me.

I don't really like reviews where some beef jerky head tells the whole story and then expects people to just run right out and read what they already just read. So, here ya go.... Bleed on me begins with Chris, who just wants his neighbors to stop blasting their loud ass music. Pushed to the brink he decides to pay them a visit and tell them he's gonna call the law or else. Shit hits the fan and then some, going way past the limits of "or else" here, and from there the reader is shot out of a cannon and only permitted to land when Shane Mckenzie says so by screeching this ride to a halt. That's it for background and story, folks. All you're gonna get from me because I think that if you like balls to the wall horror and action and want to have your mind blown to smithereens you really need to be reading this monster of a tale rather than reading about it.

This is the first thing I have read from Shane and absolutely will not be the last. In fact, I think we are just getting started in our reader meet author blitzkrieg. He seems like a writer made just for me. Well written and paced to perfection, he delivers the gory goods before the reader even has time to settle in. This particular story goes easy on the build up and cuts straight to the good parts. By good parts I mean lots and lots of parts and fluids being tossed around. In your face practically. This is one book that should come with a raincoat.

Shane has been added to the top of my "yes, more please" list. He has a good sized back catalog of titles and I can't wait to read every single other thing this guy has already written or plans to roll out. I feel like one of those people who has come late to a really cool party after everybody else has already thrown up and passed out. Now that I'm here I don't wanna leave. So yes, bring on the sickness. More please.

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Dec 07, 2012 James Meeks rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Whoa! Like the proverbial bat out of hell Shane Mckenzie has ridin onto the horror scene with three amazing novella's so far this year, this being his third release (and yes! there's an awesome collection coming from Thunderstorm books around October). And by all that is unholy this guy delivers non-stop stories that are just what the mad doctor ordered.

This recent outing from the fine folks at Abattoir Press is edge of your seat writing at its finest. Hair pulling, gruesome, demented, action dr...more Whoa! Like the proverbial bat out of hell Shane Mckenzie has ridin onto the horror scene with three amazing novella's so far this year, this being his third release (and yes! there's an awesome collection coming from Thunderstorm books around October). And by all that is unholy this guy delivers non-stop stories that are just what the mad doctor ordered.

This recent outing from the fine folks at Abattoir Press is edge of your seat writing at its finest. Hair pulling, gruesome, demented, action driven and a heck of a lot of fun to read. This guy just keeps giving books that you can't put down. Plus each of his latest offerings: Infinity House, All You Can Eat and this one are all extremely unique and individual in their execution. It's like taking the best of Troma, Fulci, nightmares, hallucinatory turns of expression and a nice healthy slice of humor and condensing it down to its basic and necessary ingredients to give the readers one of the best story journeys money can buy.

So if you can't get enough of the blurb and need a run down of how the story bleeds onto the paper it goes a bit like this...Chris the "lazy" no "good" son of an deceased porn star is just trying to enjoy his evening with his pizza, but of course he has to attempt it with the pounding music from his neighbors below. After a quick trip down to the neighbors apartment to ask for them to turn it down some, Chris stumbles upon one messed up scene. Bodies ripped to pieces everywhere and a crazed drug dealer named Spade whose very much alive among this bloody mess. Well things turn pretty demented after that...actually really damn demented!

For instance: "The other woman, nude but for the lizard-green thong, crawled on her back in a wavy pattern, her eyes throwing bleeding light over the door. The tapping came from the countless spindly legs that had sprouted from her spine, and she crawled at Chris like a hellish millipede"

Oh yes!! What! Trust me it gets even better...Yeah that's enough spoilers for you suckers that haven't dropped the dough for this one yet.

If you love the genre and haven't given Shane a chance yet, well don't be no fool and get yourself some. His stuff is fresh and original, well written and every word shows how much he loves to entertain his readers. You ain't gonna find no dry, dull witted prose here. Instead your going to get your ass entertained! This guy is the very reason I love the horror genre so much. Fantastic stuff!(less)

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Oct 15, 2012 Amanda rated it 3 of 5 stars

Read in one sitting, has alot of potential to be better or to have more added to it. Very creative, will be on the lookout for more from Shane McKenzie.

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