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So much screaming. Roger Huntington is home from college for the summer, and he and his best friend, Tooth, can't wait to start having fun. It's going to be a summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, parties and maybe even girls. So much pain. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures, two friends - So much blood. - suddenly thrust in the middle of a nightmare. Forced to fight for their lives against a sadistic killer. A killer with an arsenal of razor-sharp blades and a hungry dog. So much death. If they are to survive, they must decide: are heroes born, or are they made? Or is something more powerful happening to them? And more importantly, how do you survive when all roads lead to... death!
- Sales Rank: #83831 in Audible
- Published on: 2012-05-08
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 427 minutes
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
The new edition is even better!
By Nickolas Cook
THE SUMMER I DIED by Ryan C. Thomas
Review by Nickolas Cook
Coscom Entertainment (2nd edition)
Trade/$14.99
Back when I first reviewed Ryan Thomas' THE SUMMER I DIED, there was an extreme sub-genre, known by enthusiasts as `backwoods' horror, which is an offshoot of the same sub-genre in film: movies like DELIVERANCE, STRAW DOGS, WRONG TURN, and the ultimate in backwoods terror, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. In the horror literature world it comprised of some pretty gruesome titles by the likes of Joe Lansdale, Jack Ketchum, Ed Lee, Richard Laymon and Weston Oches. Now it's a thriving sub-genre, with more movies and more books than I can name here available. So what better time for Coscom Entertainment to release this new, cleaned up edition of Thomas' debut work?
THE SUMMER I DIED is an unrelenting read.
Grisly.
Bloody.
And, unfortunately, quite plausible.
Author Ryan C. Thomas tells the story of Roger and his childhood friend, Tooth, and what happens to them in the backwoods of a small New Hampshire town, when they run across a dilapidated cabin and find it's the terror dome of a sadistic (and very imaginative) killer.
But the author doesn't throw the reader into the horror before some careful consideration for his main characters. Thomas takes the time to paint a pair of likable guys, and give them a sense of humor and life before tossing them to the lions. Roger, the industrious one, and Tooth, the slacker of the duo, are young men that anyone might recognize as the guys next door, unhappy with life in a small town, but hopeful for a change. And that's what makes this novel so damned hard to get through without feeling sick and dirty. Thomas holds nothing back; he describes all the gore, all the pain, and all of the terror blow-by-blow. THE SUMMER I DIED is written in first person, so there should have been no suspense about Roger's survival of the ordeal. But several times I had to remind myself that he lives through it, or else no one would be telling the story, right? It's been a long time since I had to do that for a first person narrative. That's the power of good descriptive writing, and building a dense atmosphere of palpable horror for the reader.
The obvious caveat is that this style of writing may not be for everyone. Some may see THE SUMMER I DIED as violence for violence's sake, a literary equivalent to a Friday the 13th film.
But what makes it work so well is the characters' sense of humanity. Even at his worst, the killer, named Skinnyman in Roger's narrative memory, gains our sympathy even as he utterly devastates the human body, and does such outrageous things to a woman's severed head that I can't even bring myself to print it here. His methods are extreme...maybe too extreme for some readers, so be warned now. Even the dog, Butch, has a sense of humanity, and becomes like another character for the story.
In this second edition, the rough first few pages have been smoothed out for a better pace and phrasing. The flashbacks don't feel quite as intrusive as in the 1st edition. The spotty dialogue that peppered the original print has also been cleaned up a bit and moves more seamlessly through the narrative.
Since his debut release, Thomas has been busy editing a fantastically original anthology for Permuted Press, called MONSTROUS [...] and doing what writers do best: write what he knows and feels, and just plain making it better with every new sitting.
And what I said before, still stands true with this 2nd edition of THE SUMMER I DIED: He still has a good grasp of theme and characterization; his dialogues scintillate off the page. And I still charge that Thomas may very well be the next big name in extreme horror. For those fans of extreme horror, and `backwoods' horror, or both,[...]
--Nickolas Cook
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
THE SUMMER I DIED BY RYAN C. THOMAS
By TheBooksofBlood
Where to begin with this book? Well, first of all I can say I don't think I've read anything like it before. I read a lot of horror, and have done so all my life and I can safely say I don't think a book has made me feel sick before. This piece of fiction is beyond the usual genre writing, beyond splatter fiction. This was not the typical slasher story I was expecting. I'll get back to that shortly, first the setup.
Roger, whose first person perspective the story is told from, returns from a semester at college to reunite with his high school best friend, Tooth. They begin spending a summer of drinking and having a good time. This all changes when they hear a woman's cries while out on a remote mountainside shooting at cans, and they feel compelled to investigate. After investigating the cries, they stumble across a cabin and fall into the clutches of a demented character referred to as the Skinny Man. What follows is page after page of brutal, sadistic violence, that you could never be prepared for.
When it comes to the characterization in the book, the interactions between Roger and his best friend Tooth are really well done. Their relationship evoked memories that we all have of that one best friend in high school who you remain friends with throughout life, even if you don't talk as much as you should. That friend that you have an unbreakable bond with, and you know how each other think. The establishment of this believable and tight relationship fosters empathy with them, and that makes what follows so much worse.
The vast majority of the book takes place in Skinny Man's basement as our protagonists are subjected to greater and more disturbing torture. If the horror movie genre has the torture porn subgenre, then this is the literary equivalent. I don't want to give the impression that the writing is bad, gimmicky or just stringing together torture scenes for shock value, because it's not, and that what makes it more disturbing. The writing is good, emotive, and the characters have depth. You feel for them so much, especially as things get worse, and everything considered sacred is desecrated by violence. About two thirds of the way through the book I questioned whether I wanted to carry on, every subsequent visit of the skinny man to the basement takes things to another level. I wanted to stop, to put the story out of my mind, forget it, but I couldn't. I needed to know what happens. In so many books the heroes find themselves in a rough spot, but I don't think I've seen people as completely doomed, and in such a hopeless situation as in this book. I had to know things got better, that there would be some justice and retribution, it couldn't be left like this, so I carried on.
The ending is fitting for the tone of the rest of the book. So many bad things had gone on that a happy ending was never really on the cards. To say that justice was done would be a bit much, but the Skinny Man does have his reign of terror ended, but after all that preceded, it's a hollow victory.
I've realized that despite being a veteran of horror fiction, you can't unread something. This book is disturbing beyond question, the Skinny Man is sadistic, evil and merciless. The suffering and punishment are unreal in their scale but all too real in their descriptions. This book will leave a mark on you, you will think about it when you're not reading it, and this is not a tale you will forget. I thought I couldn't be shocked any more, that my senses were deadened to horror from years of dedicated genre reading, but I was wrong. It's hard to give this book a score because the writing is really good, but the torture is so abhorrent.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A masterpiece of splatter horror. Absolutely loved this book! Solid 5 stars.
By S. Jordan
This extremely graphic sub-genre of horror is commonly called “splatterpunk” or “torture porn”. I don’t really like the term “torture porn” because the “porn” part makes me think of something that is poorly written, with no real plot or character development. (I don’t think anyone really reads or watches porn for the awesome plot, do they??) Anyway, that may be the case for some novels out there that fall within this genre, but for writers like Ryan Thomas (and Jack Ketchum), I feel that the term “torture porn” does not at all do them justice and in my opinion even implies a cheapness or tackiness to their writing.
“The Summer I Died” is incredibly well-written, the storyline is completely believable and the characters are thoroughly developed. The first one-third of the book is devoted almost entirely to plot and character development and is relatively innocuous – no blood, guts or gore. But once the splatter starts, it does not let up for one second. I recently read “Off Season” by Jack Ketchum, which is an extremely graphic novel in this same genre, and even with that book there were lulls in the splatter every now and then. That is not the case with “The Summer I Died”. I was utterly transfixed and could not put this book down. When I finally finished, I immediately found myself physically and mentally exhausted – my body and brain were apparently so tensed up for the final 70% of the book that I was completely spent. And I loved every single minute of it!!
I have already downloaded the second book in this series (“Born to Bleed”) and plan on starting it immediately if not sooner.
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