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Title: The Black Spiral: Twisted Tales of Terror by Richard D. Weber, F. Paul Wilson, Ramsey Campbell ISBN: 1-897013-22-1 Publisher: Cyber-Pulp Pub. Date: December, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Horror Filled with Dark Humor and Plot Twists Galore!
Comment: PSYCHOLOGICAL CUTTING-EDGE TERROR WITH A WICKED TWIST!
A TURN OF THE SCREW!
Stan Freiburg NY.NY.
F. Paul Wilson ... Ramsey Campbell ... Mort Castle ...Tim Lebbon ... Tina L. Jens ... Robert Weinberg ... Nancy Kilpatrick ... Sephera Giron ... Thomas Deja ... J. Knight ... these along with other masters of suspense plunge you into their corkscrew world of hateful revenge, uncertain fate, and finally--panic. You drift deeper and deeper, tumbling into "THE BLACK SPIRAL."

In twenty maximum-fear-factor tales of suspense you'll encounter ... Elvis rising from the grave to wreak havoc on a rap group who's been sampling his songs ... the uncertainty of crossing over into the shadowy world of the near death experience ... a writer who finds himself hunted like a character in the pages of his own screenplay ... a young couple who think they've found their dream home... that is, until they learn of its blood-soaked past ... a seductive vixen who uses her voluptuous body as bait as she prowls the Goth scene's nightlife looking for fresh meat, leading to an orgiastic night that guarantees eternal life for Vanessa and her all-consuming passions ... lust-filled ghosts who covet and seduce unsuspecting women as they sleep ... a beautiful, hard-driving femme fatale who's on the run in the dusty heart of the Arizona Desert and races the devil for pink slips ... and a serpent-handling, traveling preacher man who gets more than he bargained for when he unwittingly makes a pact with old "Mr. Scratch."

These stories are at once eerie and haunting, chilling and nightmarishly brilliant. Guaranteed to prickle your skin with gooseflesh, and keep you reading until the wee hours of dawn.

THE BLACK SPIRAL: TWISTED TALES OF HORROR

A FINGERNAILS-ON-THE-BLACKBOARD THRILLFEST!
What more would any horror fan want? Not much.

Rating: 5
Summary: Book Source Jan 2004
Comment: The Black Spiral: Twisted Tales of Terror
by Tracy Bigums
Tales of the supernatural, haunting tales, tales of gibbering terror combine with an occasional splash of dark humor in rare collection of work from the masters of horror.
This anthology comes out of the starting gate at full gallop with Mort Castle's witty and literate take on the true meaning of the horror genre. Mort's biting and sledgehammer approach to humor underscores the subject and nails it right between the eyes.

"Elvis Can't Dance" answers the burning questions: Is "The King" prowling the streets of America, filling up at the local 7-11? Is he aware of his surging popularity and what's his take on impersonators and rap music? Well... he's back and he's mad! Tina Jens and Bob Weinberg tickle your funny bone and tantalize. It reads like buttered popcorn: a tasty treat for your eyes.

Tim Lebbon's tale takes place in not-so-jolly new London. He awakes to find a stranger with his face. He awakes to find Hell on earth around every bend.

Richard Weber's tale "Woman-child" is a chilling and haunting tale of a young girl hounded by an astral-traveling lover. It starts slowly and quickly draws you in sentence by sentence with an ending that's a real shocker. Shades of Koontz combine with Lovecraft for an unusual and original story. Commercial pacing couples with stylistic prose for a marriage that will terrorize and awe.

Ramsey Campbell's tale warns us to be careful of the consequences of giving a bad review. Which is a good match with F.Paul Wilson's tale of an outraged novelist who's not happy with the film adaptation of his story. When these talented authors take a tongue-in-cheek look at there own profession, the results are always stellar. Vodoo-Hodoo and more!

Nancy Kilpatrick delivers a double-tap with two tales, which combine horror with sarcastic wit. Not so easy a task in the hands of lesser a writer. But Nancy makes a departure from her vampire tales and erotica to show us two haggard women who cope with life's stressors in the most unusual way: a ghoulish low carb diet!! and an afair with a Seinfeldlike ... wisecracking ... handsome stranger.

Sephera Giron combines romance with erotic horror, which pulls you upward in a swift plume of passion and terror.

Rating: 5
Summary: Hetzan Chimera goes mad for Black Spiral!!
Comment: "It was during a protracted series of failed suicide attempts that I first discovered the delights of BLACK SPIRAL, handed to me by a wretched tramp in a bus shelter one rainy day. I resigned to throwing myself from an iron bridge over the Cheddar gorge but my body refused to die ... BLACK SPIRAL brought me back from the brink. I next tried shooting my forehead clean off with my grandfather's shotgun but my brain refused to die ... BLACK SPIRAL showed me the way back to recovery. Next, a truck, it's horn blaring... For months this mania continued... each time I was welcomed back into the gory embrace of BLACK SPIRAL. Until one day I discovered that it was BLACK SPIRAL that was making me commit these serial suicides, it was BLACK SPIRAL that made me cling onto life when reason would have left me for dead. The very next day I resorted to burning the damned book ... and BLACK SPIRAL made me suffer from my transgression." Hertzan Chimera, 2003.