by Gregor Xane
Disturbingly funny, or hilariously disturbing, Xane's wonderful Six Dead Spots chronicles the protagonist's floundering descent into madness when Frank discovers first five, then six spots on his body where there's no feeling. Frank finds out that the 'dead spots' have something to do with a recurre...
Compelling and disturbing. Don’t read this at bed-time. Horror at its best creeps in through the door of the ordinary, and Six Dead Spots delivers it this way. Frank, a graphic designer, has a mildly abnormal experience, a symptom, the sort of thing that the reader can easily identify with. The a...
Vanilla Sky meets Eraserhead, directed by Tool guitarist Adam Jones I liked this book. And I didn't. It's really as simple (and as hard) as that. Let's get what I didn't like out of the way. Xane's writing is a bit repetitious. One paragraph in particular used "wall" so many times I thought...
Vanilla Sky meets Eraserhead, directed by Tool guitarist Adam Jones I liked this book. And I didn't. It's really as simple (and as hard) as that. Let's get what I didn't like out of the way. Xane's writing is a bit repetitious. One paragraph in particular used "wall" so many times I thought I'd tu...
Frank is having a bad run lately. Frank has dead spots. Counted 5...no, wait...6. Doctors aren't any help at least ones called Banana. Even of lesser help are doctor’s assistants named Carl or psychiatrists named Vo. So Frank does what any of us would do, by drowning his sorrows in prescription pill...
I don't even know where to begin with this one. Gregor, you write crazy SO well.I really like Frank, but then he's my kinda character. I like the ones that are a little um off the beaten path. After finding these dead spots on his body, having to deal with Dr Peel (who is AWESOME), being sent off...
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