Road-EO by Joseph M. Monks

Rating: ★★★★

Genre: Horror

Format: eBook

Pages: 24

Read: 02/15/23

Synopsis:

Five college kids rolling through Alabama on their way to a long-anticipated concert. The only obstacle? A long stretch without truck stops and a desperate need for food—and the rest room. Thanks to a sleazy smartphone app, the crew find themselves in a flyspeck town that doesn’t even sell rolling papers. Despite the warning signs, the friends find some grub, a room for rent, and a helluva lot more than they bargained for when people they’ve already encountered begin turning up…in entirely different roles. Killers? Cannibals? Organ traffickers? Whatever the small town’s ugly secret, it’s going to be shared—and in the most heinous way possible. As he’s been doing since the ‘early 90s, Joe Monks brings home the splatterpunk with this 24-page short story.

Review:

An isolated town where strangers are not welcome. Traveling college kids, tired, hungry, and frustrated. Just needing a rest. Relying on a Travel App, not realizing it is not reputable, they end up in a severely dire situation. One that there is seemingly no hope of escaping. 

Road-EO has elements of the old 80s slasher horror. Good old slasher horror, such as, The Hills Have Eyes, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Blood Diner. 

Splatterpunk indeed! Blood, guts, and gore galore! The bodies hit the floor in the most visceral way!

Bonus: Illustrations

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