Customer Reviews
Poor - By: Smokey, 10 Jul 2008 
Three fantastic authors. Three poor stories. I really looked forward to this book as I love all three authors & I had read everything else Laymon had written so the chance of a new story seemed promising. I have to say I wasn't impressed. All three stories were slow & pointless. I just couldn't get into this book at all.
Great! - By: marky77, 26 Apr 2008 
I was looking forward to this book very much as I love Richard Laymon. I have also read a few Jack Ketchum bokks & enjoyed them, too.
The premise is very interesting, all three authors - Richard Laymon, Edward Lee, Jack Ketchum - have to write a story about a man who walks into a place of work & begind shooting people.
The first is around 100 pages long & is wriiten by Richard Laymon. I give this 5 stars it's easily the best storyin the book & it's worth the price of the book for this alone. Sharon is sitting at work waiting as the clock slowl ticks toward 5 o clock so she can go home, when the telephone rings & a menacing voice tells her "I'm going to get you, Sharon!" Right before a man bursts into the offices & opens fire on her work collegues. The story takes off from here with Sharon (and a few others)in the builing trying to hide from the killer & escape death, extremely exciting & face paced, this is excellent & very highly recomended.
The second story is by Edward Lee & at about 160 pages, takes up over half of the book. Starts off almost exactly the same as Laymons' story for the first chapter (which actually made it reall fun top see it take offin a completely different direction later). Howeverin this story, the killer is immeditaly disposed off. The story takes place 200 yearsin the future on a spaceship & how the spaceship is targeted by a Stana-worshipping terrorist organisation. Although I really enjoyed this story, there are an unbeliveable ammount of references to God & religion - litterally several times per page at some points! - but to be fair, it is important to the plot of the book & overall it feels more science fiction than horror, but this is certaiblt made up for the last 20 pages or so are some of the most brutal I've read! Overall I'd give it 4 stars.
The 3rd story by Jack Ketchum is completely different to the other 2 & is also very short - more of a short story than a novella at 40 pages, but still enjoyable. It starts off with a shooting scene again - this time with the mentally unstable protagonist as the killer - but this is just a dream & the main story is about how he hates the worldin general. Cant really say much more without spoiling it as it's so short. I found it very funnyin places which is always a good thing :). Warning: some may find this offensive as it has a lot of racist & homophobic dialogue. 4 stars.
Overall a very enjoyable book I would deffinatly recomend to horror fans or fans of any three of the authors. Also, I you like one of the authors, this is a good introduction to the others, too.
