LUSTMORD:
Anatomy of a
Serial
Butcher Volume 1 (of 6)
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Author:
Kirk Alex
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A
WORD OF CAUTION!
Translation: This one is definitely not for the faint of
heart, squeamish nor the weak of belly! Foretold is forewarned.
Synopsis: In a quiet, Southern
California residential neighborhood, in a basement converted into a dungeon of
depravity, victims are starved, tortured, raped and dismembered...
"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the
abyss gazes also into you." – Friedrich Nietzsche
I started LUSTMORD: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher back in 1987, and it is January
17, 2013, as I write this. How many years is that? Twenty-six? Give or take. I
say give or take because somewhere in there, during the mid 1990s, I had to lay
off the thing for about five years. Why? Nightmares.
Cold sweats. Unable to sleep. Why? Subject matter. Some of it was
too damn horrific and the images wouldn't go away at the end of the day. Five
years. Not to mention another three years when I could only face the book for
about four or five months at a time. The shit was sick and very depraved.
Fucking brutal to say the least! I definitely needed a break.
Why go anywhere near the subject matter, then? Why fool
with it? Because I have to bounce around, move from genre to genre, or else I
get restless––and because if I'm going to do a book about a sociopath, you
better believe one thing: I am going to treat the material with absolute
honesty. There is no other way. I did not want to whitewash (or sugarcoat) any
of it, the way certain writers like to do, or the way some, rather, most
Hollywood flicks treat the material: by having the unpleasant stuff happen off
screen, or else it's done with gimmicks and cheesy effects. I wanted it raw,
and I wanted it to be disturbing––because when it happens, the way it happens
in real life, that's what it is: appalling, venal, sickening and twisted. So I
repeat, read at your own risk!
The author/publisher is not responsible for any nervous breakdowns,
facial tics, insomnia, depression, loss of appetite, loss of hair, sexual
dysfunction, bouts of insanity, marriages and/or relationships disintegrating,
time spent in therapy, stays in the bughouse, shakes, quakes, headaches, heart
problems, vomiting, nausea, episodes of anxiety, suicidal tendencies or a
sudden, inexplicable urge to do bodily harm to your fellow humans, and any
other ailments, be they large or small, that you may experience as a result of
having read LUSTMORD: Anatomy of a Serial Butcher. You have been thoroughly
advised. Proceed at your own peril.
Kirk Alex
Writer/Director
"LUNCH MEAT"
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Biography
The author Kirk Alex
grew up in Chicago. "Found myself in the jungles of Southeast Asia at 19.
Got through that. Returned to the Windy City and bought a typewriter on
layaway. Little did I know that it would take years to develop a style, a
voice, let alone get anywhere with it. Headed west shortly after: LA, and that
madness.
This was the early 70s."Was a furniture mover, delivered
phone books door to door, drove a taxi, was a movie extra, worked in a factory,
painted apartments, did a stint as a shipping clerk at a mail-order porn video
company, repoed tvs even; sold rebuilt mattresses to Sunset Strip prostitutes
and out-of-work Hollywood actor types.
"Bottom
line: My Olivetti/LETTERA manual provided the only light at the end of the
tunnel. Granted, it may have been a weak light; still, it was the only lifeline
available. Without books/writing, I might easily have ended up in a
straitjacket in a rubber room somewhere, or dead."
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