![]() The collection opens with “The Stick Woman,” a brutal narrative in which a woman named Priscilla has been held hostage by her husband for years. The four short narratives that make up this book can be easily summarized, but they add up to something harder to describe. However, this time around, I discovered something that had eluded me thus far despite having been a fan of Lee’s work for almost a decade: he is one of the sharpest, fearless, most honest chroniclers of the darkest, filthiest side of human nature. As always, he does so without pulling any punches and writing some of the most gut-churning descriptions in contemporary hardcore horror. ![]() In Terra Insanus, Lee serves up a four-story meal of mayhem, sex, death, and destruction. You see, Lee is somewhat like my favorite taco joint in terms of hardcore horror: yes, I go to other places once in a while, but when I’m craving something very specific, something greasy and perfect, I go straight to the place I know makes some of the best tacos in town. In any case, I dug in with a grin on my face. It’d been sitting there for a while because, as any serious reviewer will tell you, books pile up faster than we can read them. ![]() Then I started cleaning my email and found a digital copy of Edward Lee’s Terra Insanus and immediately started devouring it. I was feeling low and needed the literary equivalent of that comment that gets you thrown out of church. ![]()
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