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In memory of Richard Laymon this book is a gem. The best in horror went above and beyond to write some of the grossest and grotesque horror since the splatterpunk days.
Excitable Boys is just a ridiculous book, but if you like humor, this might appeal to you. For me, I should have known, as the description of the book was for "The authors to try to come up with the grossest story, that the author could think of." I'm pretty sure this competition was taken from an awards show (Stoker's maybe?), and then placed in book form.Anyway, as expected, the butt and feces were common themes, and were in almost all of the stories. So, after reading the first two stories I
Kelly Laymon published my twisted little tale "The Constipated Cannibal" which is now being reprinted in A HELL OF A JOB
Published back in 2002 by Freak Press, ‘Excitable Boys’ is a collection of the most repulsive and damn right sick stories to thrill the tastes of those who seek such literature. Compiled and edited by Kelly Laymon (none other than Richard Laymon’s daughter), the idea for the book was the brain child of Kelly’s after hearing Ryan Harding’s 2000 entry in the World Horror Convention Gross-Out Contest. The name for the compilation came from Warren Zevon’s song entitled ‘Excitable Boy’. Sharing simil...
This is a smallish collection of gross-out stories. Take this as a warning as well as a description. That is not a euphemism for "really funny jokes about farts" though there are some. Despite the horror writers involved, don't even quite assume horror (your mileage may vary). Gross-out. But What Could Doug Mean by This?One story has a father so abusive that his son prefers the anal rape to worse tortures. Another has got maggots coming out of a penis after they were inserted there for a snuff/p...