When you read this book, you may need to take a few hits of Plata or Valium to get through, or not, and experience the entire book, page by page, as Steven Rage intended it - to scare, to upset, and to start and keep you thinking.
There is a large ripple in the Evil Nerd Empire printing company universe. Steven Rage has found a home and a place for him to write to his heart's content and has a built in audience of horror readers who will want for more. Bravo that he's found a home for his readership - Steven Rage is a brilliant writer in his genre.
Is a Steven Rage book for the ordinary reader??? No way.
Every page is not for the faint of heart. It deals with lots of drugs, dead people, aborted fetuses, and someone like Westphal who works in a nursing facility and literary 'has his way' with the patients.
In order for more drugs, he appears in a 'porn' flick that is uneasy to read as it was for Westphal to participate in.
Is this and other Steven Rage works for everyone? No.
That is why I tell you I know the brilliance of the man, been a fellow writer in the first Shameless Shorts Short Story Anthology, and read his book PILATE on Harborside's (a suburb of Phoenix) modern version of Pontius Pilate and Jesus - brilliant, but violent, as the story was.
He is talented and his audience is specific - one who understands that Mr. Rage pulls no punches, nor cushions any situations - it is what it is.
You Morbid Westfal is not everyone's cup of tea. But for afficianados of the morbid, and horror, The Evil Nerd Empire Publishing has opened its arms and given Mr. Rage a forum for his talents, which are formidable.
I look forward to more from Steven Rage.
ellen george
You Morbid Westphal by Steven Rage, ISBN 10: 2439259739, BookSurge Publishing and The Evil Nerd Empire, review by ellen george
