Deadweight

by Robert Devereaux

Book Overview

After killing her abusive husband, Danny, in self-defense, Karin spends her days tending flowers at his grave, unable to let go of him, that is, until he rises from the grave to abuse her again. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0440214823
• ISBN13: 9780440214823
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Company
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

The greatest, goriest, resurrection story ever!

It's too bad scottjp@cris.com was so way off on his review of the brilliant DEADWEIGHT. I hope his unkind words don't scare off potential readers from what is certainly one of the better horror novels of the 1990s. Robert Devereaux's DEADWEIGHT, clearly the best of the Dell Abyss line of "cutting-edge" horror books, is the kind of novel that takes your breath away. It could be labelled "splatterpunk" because of its scenes of outrageous sex and grue, and yet it could also be called a story of hope. The exquisite writing (Devereaux's playful and beautifully precise language lends a poetic irony to the gruesome events within) seduces us into Karin's story of revival. The jaw-droppingly horrible struggle that Karin must endure on the way to that revival is almost physically painful for the reader, but Karin's psychological victory at book's end is rendered all the more exciting. Please read this book! It's the first and possibly greatest book (so far) by an author destined for infamy!