The Future of RedRum Reviews

I Have a dream. A wet dream. A gory, sloppy, and terrifying vision for the future and it all started with a present given to me in 2018—DOA III: An Anthology of Extreme Horror. I like dark stuff. Always have. But my palate had never sampled anything quite like the stories in that book. Some of my favorite authors like Chuck Palahniuk had definitely touched on similar themes and graphic depictions. But there was something about the writing in the short stories of DOA III that was unique. After a little digging on the contributing authors, I uncovered entire sub-genres of horror I didn’t even know existed—some of it ended up being more ‘mainstream’ than I ever realized too. The more extreme, bizarro, erotic, and weird fiction I read, the more fascinated I became. Soon I was no longer idly browsing the titles, I was enjoying the stories and actively trying to find better and better books! That’s when I got that wonderfully horrible idea…. As a lifelong book lover, I’d always been curious as to what being an author was like. In the past, I’d tried my hand at random short stories here and there. Looking back though, all my attempts were lame recreations of plots I already knew well. However, as I heeded the call from the darkest of all sub-genres, I found new inspiration. A vast majority of the plots were new to me, and I felt a creativity I hadn’t known before. As I got to know more authors and readers in the community, I found that the more absurd and graphic a story was—as long as it was well written—the better. Being able to shock someone in the community is like a badge of honor. And I found myself wanting to shock and to be shocked in return. The getting shocked part was easy. I read Ed Lee…lol. Shocking others though was the tricky part. I couldn’t expect to pick up a pen and jump into a culture I’d only just discovered. That’s when RedRum Reviews was born. The reviews are my honest reactions to this new journey into horror. In the beginning I had a whole post on my welcome page about how I was going to dive in headfirst and invited everyone to join me—but to go easy as it was my first time