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Urban Gothic

by Brian Keene

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When their car breaks down in the middle of the seediest part of the inner city, a group of teenagers take refuge in an abandoned row house. But it's not abandoned at all. The inhabitants are no longer human, and they don't take kindly to intruders.
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Another Halloween horror read! This was a great genre book. Splatter horror with young protagonists and it hit all the right notes. Teenagers doing stupid things? Check. Nowhere to run but the neighborhood haunted house? Check. Cannibal Freaks that live in the basement? Check. Old guy who is a secret badass? Check. Young guy who just wants to do the right thing? Check. Buckets of body fluids? Check.

Contrary to other reviews, there is absolutely no rape of any living thing in this book. A corpse isn't a person. It's gross, incredibly repulsive, and a serious crime in most places, but it isn't rape. ( )
  rabbit-stew | Mar 29, 2019 |
Good Book. Don't read if creatures with large mutant diseased phallus are not your thing. If you read Keene at all you already know that he usually has some type of monster lusting after human women and this book is no different, it just part of the fun of reading his books. ( )
  texvelis | May 2, 2018 |
Brian Keene is a sick fuck. And yet, I can't stop reading his books! ( )
  Heather_Brock | Nov 23, 2016 |
This was a decent read if you are just looking for a kill em all splatterfest of a novel, don't expect any questions to be answers though, except for who will survive and what will be left of them. It was by far the goriest most depraved novel of Brian keene's that I have read and I have read most of them. It had some original and grewsum parts in it that made it stand out from similar novels. ( )
  justin.eaton.35 | Feb 5, 2014 |
Rating: 2.5 of 5

Inner city cannibals + trapped teenagers = lots of carnage. That's about the gist of Urban Gothic, and why I won't read it again. With horror movies, I'm a gorehound. Probably why zombie flicks are my fave. But in its literary counterpart, there has to be more than just splatter in order to get under my skin, to terrify me. Keene's use of smell was brilliant, though. It made the story way more shocking (and sickening) than if he'd relied solely on visuals. I gagged a couple times and flinched more times than I can count.

Fast-paced, rampant graphic violence, and human deformities galore.

Note to self: This was my first Keene novel. Even though this one didn't blow me away, I still plan to read The Rising. ( )
  flying_monkeys | Dec 29, 2013 |
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For Edward Lee, who once gave me crabs...
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"Shit happens," Javier grumbled from the backseat.
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When their car breaks down in the middle of the seediest part of the inner city, a group of teenagers take refuge in an abandoned row house. But it's not abandoned at all. The inhabitants are no longer human, and they don't take kindly to intruders.

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When their car broke down in a dangerous neighborhood of the inner city, Kerri and her friends thought they would find shelter in the old dark row house. They thought it was abandoned. They thought they would be safe there until morning. They were wrong on all counts. The residents of the row house live in the cellar and rarely come out in the light of day. They’re far worse than anything on the streets outside. And they don’t like intruders. Before the sun comes up, Kerri and her friends will fight for their very lives… though death is only part of their nightmare.
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Crazy, mutant freaks
Eat a bunch of people in
Philadelphia.
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