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The Toilet Zone #2
The Toilet Zone: Number Two
Imagine, if you will, you’re traveling through the unknown, hellbound, with no roadmap or stars to guide you. The light fades as you descend into a shadow realm where supernatural terrors make their lair and evil lurks at every turn. Here, dead things don’t always stay dead, for this is a world where things that shouldn’t be… are, and things that should be are not.
In this world, it takes between 2,500 and 4,000 reading words to pay a visit to the smallest, but terrifyingly necessary, room, and stories are written precisely to chill the bones as you wait for nature to make its call. You open up the book, and one of the 32 tales skulking within its hellish pages chooses you…
It’s too late to turn back now. You are about to set foot into another dimension, so best watch out for that signpost up ahead. You’ve just crossed over into... The Toilet Zone: Number Two
Featuring stories by:
* Jay Baird * Matt Bliss * Sarah Cannavo * Matthew A. Clarke * Josh Darling * Hayden Gilbert * Ken Goldman * Gerri R. Gray * Jameson Grey * Chisto Healy * Carlton Herzog * Barbara Jacobson * Vivian Kasley * Joanna Koch * John Kojak * Matt Martinek * Tim Mendees * J Louis Messina * Henry Myllyla * Drew Nicks * Joe Palumbo * Frederick Pangbourne * Wolfgang Potterhouse * David Rose * Rob Santana * Pamela Scott * J.B. Toner * J. Tonzelli * Mark Towse * Thomas K.S. Wake
In this world, it takes between 2,500 and 4,000 reading words to pay a visit to the smallest, but terrifyingly necessary, room, and stories are written precisely to chill the bones as you wait for nature to make its call. You open up the book, and one of the 32 tales skulking within its hellish pages chooses you…
It’s too late to turn back now. You are about to set foot into another dimension, so best watch out for that signpost up ahead. You’ve just crossed over into... The Toilet Zone: Number Two
Featuring stories by:
* Jay Baird * Matt Bliss * Sarah Cannavo * Matthew A. Clarke * Josh Darling * Hayden Gilbert * Ken Goldman * Gerri R. Gray * Jameson Grey * Chisto Healy * Carlton Herzog * Barbara Jacobson * Vivian Kasley * Joanna Koch * John Kojak * Matt Martinek * Tim Mendees * J Louis Messina * Henry Myllyla * Drew Nicks * Joe Palumbo * Frederick Pangbourne * Wolfgang Potterhouse * David Rose * Rob Santana * Pamela Scott * J.B. Toner * J. Tonzelli * Mark Towse * Thomas K.S. Wake
363 pages, Paperback
First published December 19, 2020
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Gerri R. Gray
36 books75 followersI am an Indie horror author currently living in the Los Angeles area.
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January 12, 2021
This was a fun and gruesome collection of stories, and what else would you expect from such a title.
From pizza-gluttonous demons, to a mortifying visit to a graveyard, to a harmless old man with an unwavering smile, The Toilet Zone: Number 2 will make the right kind of mess for those seeking a few quick cheap and nasty thrills. Just wash your hands afterwards.
January 15, 2021
Thirty-two stories written to be quickly devoured.
This was such a fun, gruesome anthology! One of the great things about the length of these tales is that, if you hit on one that doesn't quite resonate, you quickly move on to the next.
But there are plenty of great stories here. There were some fresh takes on old classics, like fear of the dark, cemeteries, Elder Gods, cannibalism, vampires. Some are particularly gore-y (stabbing someone with your own bone?) which made for shocking, entertaining reads. There's a bizarre retelling of The Christmas Carol that was spectacularly fun.
There's even a story literally about fecal matter, which was entirely nauseating and absolutely fitting for an anthology called The Toilet Zone: Number Two.
Some of my personal favorites were:
Any Port in a Storm
by Matthew A. Clarke
The Taophophile
by Gerri R. Gray
Hastings
by Drew Nicks
Monstrous Love
by Pamela Scott
But the stories are varied, and I'm sure other readers will have a different list of favorites. There were only one or two stories that were misses for me. I don't know that I would keep this book literally in the bathroom as a toilet read, but I would certainly keep it on a bookshelf.
It’s too late to turn back now. You are about to set foot into another dimension, so best watch out for that signpost up ahead. You’ve just crossed over into... The Toilet Zone: Number Two
This was such a fun, gruesome anthology! One of the great things about the length of these tales is that, if you hit on one that doesn't quite resonate, you quickly move on to the next.
But there are plenty of great stories here. There were some fresh takes on old classics, like fear of the dark, cemeteries, Elder Gods, cannibalism, vampires. Some are particularly gore-y (stabbing someone with your own bone?) which made for shocking, entertaining reads. There's a bizarre retelling of The Christmas Carol that was spectacularly fun.
There's even a story literally about fecal matter, which was entirely nauseating and absolutely fitting for an anthology called The Toilet Zone: Number Two.
Some of my personal favorites were:
Any Port in a Storm
by Matthew A. Clarke
The Taophophile
by Gerri R. Gray
Hastings
by Drew Nicks
Monstrous Love
by Pamela Scott
But the stories are varied, and I'm sure other readers will have a different list of favorites. There were only one or two stories that were misses for me. I don't know that I would keep this book literally in the bathroom as a toilet read, but I would certainly keep it on a bookshelf.
December 30, 2020
The editor of Toilet Zone 2--Gerri Gray--has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Namely, creepy, dark and unsettling stories bubbling with macabre otherworldliness. If the stories don't keep you up at night, then odds are you're already dead.
April 8, 2021
"The Toilet Zone: Number Two" was sent to me so kindly by HellBound Books to read and review. As this is my first offered review I want to be clear that I take all my reviews seriously and provide only genuine commentary.
Of the collaborative anthologies I've read thus far, you certainly get your moneys worth for the amount of content. Chipping away at the anthology one story per lunch shift, it took me over a month. I was expecting something shorter but really, a bathroom TOME is the way to go. This anthology fills its promise of having something to occupy you whenever you're in The Toilet Zone, ha ha.
If you'd like more specific thoughts and comments on individual stories in the anthology you can find my thread here: https://twitter.com/SlaideyV/status/1...
As with any large collaborative work I expected to find errors but there were surprisingly few to speak of, and only those which inherently write themselves within our minds. For example, reading through a sentence if "the" is missing, as a reader, you almost instinctively fill that in yourself. Only as a slow obsessive reader did I notice the handful of occasions.
The quality of stories were average to good, and I think that lends to the purpose of the book more than it would otherwise. Sitting on the john, wanting a quick read, you want to indulge in something a little familiar. This is a perfect anthology for experiencing a variety of kinds of horror and levels of writing skill, and the reason it doesn't score higher on my personal rating system is simply because I lean towards anthologies with a hard theme.
My favorite stories among the bunch were:
"Why I Don't Drink" by Sarah Cannavo
"Broken" by Joanna Koch
"Pilgrimage to the Range" by Jay Baird
"You Never Can Tell" by Matt Bliss
Of the collaborative anthologies I've read thus far, you certainly get your moneys worth for the amount of content. Chipping away at the anthology one story per lunch shift, it took me over a month. I was expecting something shorter but really, a bathroom TOME is the way to go. This anthology fills its promise of having something to occupy you whenever you're in The Toilet Zone, ha ha.
If you'd like more specific thoughts and comments on individual stories in the anthology you can find my thread here: https://twitter.com/SlaideyV/status/1...
As with any large collaborative work I expected to find errors but there were surprisingly few to speak of, and only those which inherently write themselves within our minds. For example, reading through a sentence if "the" is missing, as a reader, you almost instinctively fill that in yourself. Only as a slow obsessive reader did I notice the handful of occasions.
The quality of stories were average to good, and I think that lends to the purpose of the book more than it would otherwise. Sitting on the john, wanting a quick read, you want to indulge in something a little familiar. This is a perfect anthology for experiencing a variety of kinds of horror and levels of writing skill, and the reason it doesn't score higher on my personal rating system is simply because I lean towards anthologies with a hard theme.
My favorite stories among the bunch were:
"Why I Don't Drink" by Sarah Cannavo
"Broken" by Joanna Koch
"Pilgrimage to the Range" by Jay Baird
"You Never Can Tell" by Matt Bliss
February 16, 2021
Now wash your hands! This might scare the shit out of you- literally.
If you're looking for a bit of terror that might make it hard to sleep at night, this is your book! The creepy tales in this book are well thought out, building up mesmerizing imagery for the reader to enjoy.
This is a fun book to read, though some cliche s pop up here and there. I like that this book is by many different authors, not falling flat in uniqueness and theme. It's a good book to read to spice up your boring workday or read all Sunday afternoon.
If you're looking for a bit of terror that might make it hard to sleep at night, this is your book! The creepy tales in this book are well thought out, building up mesmerizing imagery for the reader to enjoy.
This is a fun book to read, though some cliche s pop up here and there. I like that this book is by many different authors, not falling flat in uniqueness and theme. It's a good book to read to spice up your boring workday or read all Sunday afternoon.
October 5, 2021
Hellbound Books never disappoint with their anthologies.
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