Genre: Horror
Publisher: DarkFuse
Publication Date: 24th Oct 2015
Pages: 258
MY REVIEW:
I received an advance copy of The Incurables by Jon Bassoff from Netgalley in exchange for an
honest review. This is said review. This book is published by DarkFuse.
This is my second outing into the world of Jon Bassoff in
recent months. I read The Disassembled
Man a couple of months back. I did enjoy it but found it a bit weird at
times.
You can read my review of it here. I was hoping for more of the same
with this one but a little less of the weirdness.
Although dark and a bit out
there, I think I got my wish.
In 1953, disgraced Dr Walter Freeman is travelling the
country trying to make money, after being sacked from his prestigious position
at a mental hospital for his controversial new procedure, known as the
transorbitol lobotomy. He believes this is the way forward in curing all mental
ailments.
After landing in the Oklahoma town of Burnwood, Dr
freeman, and his docile assistant Edgar, set up a stall to try and entice
people into having the procedure to save
them.
He has some stiff competition though in the shape of Mr
Stanton, a preacher, who believes his son Durango is the messiah. Also in the
mix is Scent, a seventeen-year-old whore, who is holding out and waiting on her
mother revealing where a hoard of stolen cash may be hidden.
Add all of these factors together and you certainly have
a town full of Incurables!
