What I enjoyed: I mean, just looking at the cover ought to give you a good idea of what you’re getting yourself into. You should probably avoid this one if you need any kind of Trigger Warnings. But if you like the violence Beauregard dishes down, you’ll be grinning from ear to ear over this one. Relatively new upon the scene, Volpe’s success is a byproduct of navigating the current evolving platforms online with great finesse. He’s worked for his audience both in the skill with which he writes and the effort he’s put into promoting. Works like Talia, Only Psychos, and Left to You mark the beginning of an impressive catalog of work.

Beauredard rises on the same wave using the same means as Volpe. His work is drawing a reaction, even grossing out hardcore fans of the extreme. Among his growing catalog of splattery works, books like The Slob and Sew Sorry have readers talking and taking notice. This is a terrific book on many levels. It is actually three stories in one and they all work well as the reader tries to figure out how they are related. Otro elemento oscuro es donde Underhill ve esto como un infierno. No cierra con un buen sentimiento en su corazón de que ha hecho este noble sacrificio y puede encontrar sentido a su sufrimiento. “Esto es el infierno!” Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Over the last number of years, Aron Beauregard has emerged as one of Extreme/Splatterpunk Horror’s true Heavy Weights. His books are hotly anticipated by his ever-growing throng of fans and he has been raking up the accolades as well – becoming Splatterpunk Award nominated and Splatterpunk Award winning during that time.

Customer reviews

Paul Conway, a journalist and self-professed film aficionado, is on the trail of a tantalizing rumor. He has heard that a single copy of The Devil’s Playground—a Holy Grail for film buffs—may exist. He knows his Hollywood history and he knows the film endured myriad tragedies and ended up lost to time. I’m not struggling to find something good to read; I’m struggling find time to read all the great horror books coming out. Kozeniewski has been producing amazing work for a while now. In addition to the excellent collaborations with Wile E. Young, Brain Eater Jones, Hunter of the Dead, and The Hermatophages are the kind of books that will hook you onto everything he publishes. Geraldine Borden: The mastermind behind the revolutionary playground equipment and the host of the fateful day at her estate.

It's 1927. Mary Rourke, a Hollywood studio "fixer," is called to the home of a silent film actress named Norma Carlton, where it appears Norma has died by suicide. Norma's most recent project is a film called The Devil's Playground, which is already, even during filming, being called the best silent horror movie ever made. But as Rourke well knows, in Hollywood, things are not always as they seem... It’s 1953 and Ray Bradbury wrote a story about parenting and playgrounds. The main character – Dad – is a widower. He may have had a hard time grieving or taking on the role of being a single parent. His sister has been living with him for six months now to help. That seems - but don’t know 100% sure - to have gone well until today. His son is three years old and she left him in the park play ground when she went shopping. The Dad freaks out on that. Why is the question of the day! Did he think his son was too young for this? (I did but the story isn’t about me!) Was he projecting his past? Is it his cascade of unhappy memories or fear or guilt from his childhood memories that haunts him and makes him take the actions he does? Or is it a quasi-observation on parenting and the bullies and rough kids that came out of the fog of his dream mind and took over? Or did his sister make a bad choice that scared him “almost to death”? To be completely fair to this book, it may be unfortunate that I read it immediately after finishing The Garden on Sunset by Martin Turnbull, which chronicles the same era, and includes many of the same real people in a fictional story. That book was excellent and really brought the golden era of film to life with relatable characters, easy-reading dialogue and a much smoother flow than The Devil's Playground offered. The comparison really made the - for me - short-comings of this book more unfortunate than might have been the case had I not read the two books one right after the other. As it is, The Devil's Playground suffered mightily in comparison.

A Brief History

Geraldine and Fuchs are character's that are completely evil and unlikable, disgusting in all their enjoyment they have in living out their dream of watching the suffering of the children. There is a reason Geraldine is doing what she is, and it is somewhat sad, but clearly not justifiable.