The Balls on Ba'al!

THE 13TH by John Everson (2009 Leisure Books / 323 pp. / mmp)

As with Everson's last novel, SACRIFICE, and his novella, FAILURE, THE 13TH centers around a demonic ritual; this time a highly unbalanced genetics doctor and his assistant attempt to incarnate the demon Ba'al by impregnating 13 women and slaughtering them (with their babies) during a drunken occult orgy in the basement of a former mental asylum. 'Sound like a cheesy undergound horror flick? While the plot may seem like one, Everso...