{"product_id":"knuckle-supper-ultimate-gutter-fix-edition-9781940250304","title":"Knuckle Supper: Ultimate Gutter Fix Edition","description":"When heroin-addicted vampire and gang leader, RJ, reluctantly takes in a twelve-year-old prostitute called Bait, humanity is introduced to his otherwise lifeless existence. An unforgiving, vicious and realistic horror story, Knuckle Supper explores chemical dependency, inner-city brutality, religion, molestation, abortion and the very nature of evil itself.\u003cp\u003eIn 2010, Knuckle Supper was called \"The Anti-Twilight.\" Now, re-edited and re-mixed as The new \"Ultimate Gutter Fix Edition,\" 2011's gold medal, IPPY award-winning \"Best Horror novel\" paves the way to the much anticipated, sequel, Knuckle Balled. Unlike anything you've ever read, Knuckle Supper is a bone-smashing vampire story... built for the 21st century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Combining the slick Hollywood decadence of a Bret Easton Ellis novel and the drug-addled realism of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting, author Drew Stepek gleefully takes the piss out of the staid troupes of the genre by injecting LA's seedy underbelly with heroin-addicted vampires.\"-Rue Morgue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Even though there are various types of exploitation involved in the lives\/backgrounds of almost all the players in this blood fest, Stepek is masterful in enabling the reader to actually feel sorrow and empathy for a few of the characters (not only RJ and Bait) and to see the human in the monsters and the monster in the humans.\"-Fangoria Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The novel covers religious fanaticism, abortion, child prostitution, gang violence, drug addiction, and then wraps it in a loving layer of chocolate by letting vampires take responsibility for these things. And when you've finished the book, you'll end up feeling guilty, because the pen is a pistol, and it sure as hell wasn't aimed at vampires.\"-Vampires.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book's breakneck pace, gruesome violence, and punk noir prose should endear it to genre fans, but it's RJ and Bait's desperate lunge toward salvation that make Knuckle Supper such a memorable experience.\"-Famous Monsters Underground\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It's a drug-fueled, modern-day vampire saga that reads like a bloodsucking sequel to 1979's The Warriors written by James Ellroy. And fans of hardcore horror fiction take blissful note: Stepek's wicked prose can cut awfully deep.\" -Bloody Disgusting\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blood Bound Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50912699121938,"sku":"9781940250304","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_99cdcab7-2239-419a-9e2f-6d524fe81722.jpg?v=1738777197","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/knuckle-supper-ultimate-gutter-fix-edition-9781940250304","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}