Holocaust Horror

Mutants Amok #4

by Mark Grant

Bred in the laboratories of the future, genetically engineered mutant
monstrosities have washed the ravaged Earth with human blood. And now
the unstoppable mutant militia holds the key to ultimate world power
and total nuclear annihilation: Dr Edward Wilkens, a medical deviate
dedicated to rediscovering the long-lost secret of atromic genocide.
And unless Jack Bender and his courageous rebel band can stop the
renegade madman of science, Wilkens and his bloodthirsty mutant
masters plan to reduce the human race to radioactive refuse…turning
the Earth into a contaminated corpse-strewn dumping ground!

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1991

About the author

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A pseudonym of David Bischoff with Bruce King

Reviews

[Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mutants Amok: Holocaust Horror was the fourth of a series that lasted for five volumes written primarily by David Bischoff under the pseudonym Mark Grant. It's a schlocky sex and violence series, set in a post-apocalyptic world in which genetically manipulated super soldiers have revolted and set out to destroy their human overlords. It's like a Troma film where the gory details are so over-the-top that they're amusing but lacking the subtlety and soft-touch finesse of films like, say, The Toxic Avenger. Like the third book, this one seems a bit shorter and sillier than the first two books; it's a kind of Frankenstein-inspired story (the monsters are "igors") with a goal of mastering nuclear annihilation via robotics. And stuff. The rebels Maximillian Turkel, Jack Bender, Phil Potts, Jill Morningstar, and other unlikely characters (guess which one doesn't survive) set off to thwart the evil Dr. Wilkins, Brain General Harten, and their evil minions. As previously, the story delivers what the cover promises, but with more sex and guilty humor ("we belong dead" said the igor...) and an atomic conclusion.

[Sandra Visser · Rating 3 out of 5]

We are the damned.

Bred in the laboratories of the future, genetically engineered mutant monstrosities have washed the ravaged Earth with human blood. And now the unstoppable mutant militia holds the key to ultimate world power and total nuclear annihilation: Dr Edward Wilkens, a medical deviate dedicated to rediscovering the long-lost secret of atomic genocide. And unless Jack Bender and his courageous rebel band can stop the renegade madman of science, Wilkens and his bloodthirsty mutant masters plan to reduce the human race to radioactive refuse… turning the Earth into a contaminated corpse-strewn dumping ground!

This is one of those books that had been sitting on my shelf for years. I bought it when I first became interested in sci-fi/fantasy and bought anything I could get my hands on. It's quite gruesome but not at all as grim as the cover blurb would suggest. The plot is enjoyable and stays interesting and the main characters are broad stereotypes you immediately like. It's definitely aimed at men, though, with a terribly macho style, lots of sweating and women who all have incredible figures and who just can't wait to sleep with the guys. This is the most sex scenes I've ever read in one book!

After a while you do get a bit tired of all the gruesome and gross descriptions and start getting impatient for the story to wrap up. Some aspects are also horror and sci-fi clichés, such as a brain on stalks and killer robots, but it reads so easily and quickly that you don't mind. Far from a masterpiece but mostly enjoyable in a B-movie kind of way.

[Egghead · Rating 3 out of 5]

bonding pool table
sex funny; mutant rats good
mostly just boring