Horror
Date Published: October 14, 2017
Publisher: Neoplastic Press
During the 1980s, slashers terrorized America. With machetes and masks, these unstoppable killers stalked college campuses, quiet suburbs, and lakeside cabins.
Thirty years ago, Bobbi Metzger survived a massacre at her 16th birthday party. She spent decades putting her life back together.
Tonight, Bobbi will face a new killer: a high-tech slasher hell-bent on opening the doorway to an abyss of unimaginable horror.
How long can Bobbi survive this nightmare? What will she do to protect the people she loves?
How much blood is she willing to spill?
Excerpt:
Bobbi
thought, I will kill her, or she will kill me. Either way, this is going to
be over soon.
She
lurched across the room. Blood-soaked carpet squished under her feet. Red droplets
slid down and dripped from the handmade banner over the doorway: Happy
Birthday, Bobbi!
July
1st, 1987, was supposed to be the greatest night of her life. With their
parents out of town, Bobbi and her sister had invited everybody to the lake
house, and they'd more or less trashed the place.
Bobbi
stepped over a dead body: a girl in acid-washed jeans and a Noid t-shirt. Bobbi
didn't recognize her. One of Megan's friends.
The
TV was still on. There was a video on MTV, some new band called Guns N' Roses.
Bobbi's sister, Megan, had switched loyalty from Def Leppard to these guys,
because she thought their singer was hot. "I'd feel his serpentine,
anytime."
"Those
guys are all gross," Bobbi had said. "Rob Lowe's cute, though."
Megan
had pretended to gag.
Thick
drops of blood dotted the red icing on Bobbi's cake. A birthday card was
propped up next to the cake, and the message was scrawled in Megan's loopy
handwriting: POP THAT CHERRY, BOBBI!
If
Bobbi turned her head just a little bit, she would see Megan pinned to the wall
with a fireplace poker through her mouth, blood dripping from the band of her
polka-dotted Swatch. Bobbi didn't look. She took another tentative step.
You
can do it. You have to. If you don't, you're dead, like everyone else. No
choice.
She
stepped around the table in the middle of the room.
Heart
pounding, Bobbi peeked into the kitchen. Nothing. She looked behind her.
On
the couch, Bobbi's boyfriend Kevin stared at her blankly, the hatchet wound
like a vertical grin in his forehead. He wore a CONTRA t-shirt. Kevin spent
most of his money down at Galaxy, the arcade at the mall, plugging quarters
into games like Contra and Rastan.
Last
night, Kevin had tried to protect Bobbi, throwing himself at the woman in
black; but she had plucked the hatchet from his hand and buried it in his
skull, so quickly that Bobbi wasn't sure it had happened at all.
Then
the killer had grinned at Bobbi while Kevin slumped backwards onto the couch,
the axe handle sticking out of his skull. Bobbi tried to scream, but couldn't
make a sound.
Seven
hours later, she was still trying to scream...
My Review:
Let me start by saying that Mask Beneath Her Face reminded me of several different slasher type movies like Halloween, Friday the 13th, Candyman, A Nightmare on Elm Street plus a whole lot more. I have loved these types of movies for as long as I can remember so when I read the summary and went to Amazon to check out the free preview it didn't take me long to figure out I had to read this book.
Mask Beneath Her Face started off with a girl swinging a machete and you couldn't figure out if she was the killer or the one being attacked. I was only a few paragraphs in and I was hooked to say the least and I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one and began that journey down the long path of stabbing and slicing people up into little bitty bits and piece and making hamburger meat out of them.
A sixteen year old girl watched as all of her friends were murdered one by one on a long dark night. Thirty years later and the killer is back again and she is after Bobbi and this time she intends on finishing what she started but Bobbi has other plans and will fight until the death whoever's death it may be.
One lonely old man lives alone with no mirrors, computers, tv or phones in his house. A long, long time ago he watched as his friends were killed and barley managed to get out alive himself. He has hidden from the killer for many, many years but now the killer is back and he is after Jesse and plans on finishing what he started.
A school guidance counselor likes helping all the kids at the high school with their problems in any way he can. I guess it is his way of trying to make up for not being able to save his friends all those years ago in high school as he watched them being murdered. Now Sam's life is in danger once again as the killer is back and he is looking for Sam.
A little girl watched as her family was being killed. Years later she is out for revenge. She is looking for all the people that were responsible for making her life so miserable and she has set her traps and plans on making them pay.
I love my movies like this book with a lots killing, stabbing, slicing, chopping the bloodier the better. I believe this is the first book that I have read like this and I totally loved it from front to back and would very much love to read more. And would I ever like to see Mask Beneath Her Face on the big screen now that would be epic.
Although I really, really loved Mask Beneath Her Face I don't actually think that it is for everyone. But hey if you are in to this kind of thing then let Mask Beneath Her Face be your next read. It is a wild and crazy ride through a world of red. Rafael Chandler has one of the most amazing minds ever. He is right up there with Stephen King.
Mask Beneath Her Face started off with a girl swinging a machete and you couldn't figure out if she was the killer or the one being attacked. I was only a few paragraphs in and I was hooked to say the least and I couldn't wait to get my hands on this one and began that journey down the long path of stabbing and slicing people up into little bitty bits and piece and making hamburger meat out of them.
A sixteen year old girl watched as all of her friends were murdered one by one on a long dark night. Thirty years later and the killer is back again and she is after Bobbi and this time she intends on finishing what she started but Bobbi has other plans and will fight until the death whoever's death it may be.
One lonely old man lives alone with no mirrors, computers, tv or phones in his house. A long, long time ago he watched as his friends were killed and barley managed to get out alive himself. He has hidden from the killer for many, many years but now the killer is back and he is after Jesse and plans on finishing what he started.
A school guidance counselor likes helping all the kids at the high school with their problems in any way he can. I guess it is his way of trying to make up for not being able to save his friends all those years ago in high school as he watched them being murdered. Now Sam's life is in danger once again as the killer is back and he is looking for Sam.
A little girl watched as her family was being killed. Years later she is out for revenge. She is looking for all the people that were responsible for making her life so miserable and she has set her traps and plans on making them pay.
I love my movies like this book with a lots killing, stabbing, slicing, chopping the bloodier the better. I believe this is the first book that I have read like this and I totally loved it from front to back and would very much love to read more. And would I ever like to see Mask Beneath Her Face on the big screen now that would be epic.
Although I really, really loved Mask Beneath Her Face I don't actually think that it is for everyone. But hey if you are in to this kind of thing then let Mask Beneath Her Face be your next read. It is a wild and crazy ride through a world of red. Rafael Chandler has one of the most amazing minds ever. He is right up there with Stephen King.
About the Author
Rafael Chandler writes novels (Hexcommunicated, The Astounding Antagonists), video games (SOCOM 4, Rainbow Six: Lockdown, MAG), and tabletop role-playing games (Teratic Tome, No Salvation for Witches, Lusus Naturae). He's a metalhead, gorehound, and kaijuphile. For more information, please visit www.rafaelchandler.com.
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2 comments:
Nancy, I'm grateful beyond words for the review! I really appreciated the comparison to Stephen King -- the reason I got into horror in the first place.
By the way, I choked on my coffee when I read the phrase "making hamburger meat out of them." You got me. :)
Thank you for posting
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