Wayne Allen Sallee

珍しくこんな話を。
ウェイン・アレン・サリーという知られざるホラー作家がいるのだが(といっても昔の人じゃなくほぼ現役?)、前から気になってたその人の幻のデビュー長篇"The Holy Terror"を、この円高をいいことに思い立って米アマゾンに注文した(但しMP)。送料込で多分1900円ぐらい。実は日本アマゾンのMPでも買えるんだけど送料込4000超になるので(セコイね相変わらず)。
どういう話かというとこんな感じ↓。
This grisly, sadistic first novel suffocates itself under piles of body parts and excretions. Serial killer Frank Haid, dubbed the Painkiller by Chicago police and media, murders 18 people--all paralytics. Commanded by an unseen presence that he calls ``Father'' and that speaks in the voice of an uncle whose rotting corpse he keeps in the living room, Haid destroys his victims (what's left of them) and evidence in a way that puzzles police. Hardest hit are residents of Marclinn, a home for the handicapped, where survivors decide they must track down the madman themselves. Their efforts bring them into contact with Chicago's weird underworld--including junkie/murderers and a deformed prostitute whose head grows out her chest--and their own true selves. Crippled physically and emotionally, Marclinn inhabitants must overcome their limitations before taking on their nemesis. Sallee bludgeons readers with graphic images whose multiple shocks soon distance us from what might have been a compelling horror tale. (From Publishers Weekly)
…何だかよく判らないがとにかく凄そう。一応93年のB・ストーカー賞処女長篇部門候補作(受賞はポピー・Z・ブライト『ロスト・ソウルズ』 )。この人実は短篇をちょっと読んでるだけだが、その｢ちょっと｣が相当印象に残ったので、一体どんなやつかと訝った。そしたらこんなやつだった↓。怪しい。
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