Bone Saw by Patrick Lacey REVIEWED

Let's begin this review by saying this: if you're a horror fan and you haven't read Patrick Lacey yet, you're missing out.

You're missing out in the sorest way I can possibly imagine. His books are literary love letters to the genre I love, particularly the films of Craven, Henenlotter, and well... basically pick your favorite 80s horror film director as Lacey's probably winking at him.

There's this comfort food-like quality to his writing, that is familiar and warm, with some occasionally dark matter to keep it riveting... It keeps me coming back time and time again. It's like renting an old VHS tape, in a big lurid box, but dashed with a modernized, knowing flair that makes it an undeniable Patrick Lacey book.

Noone quite touches the old school horror fan in me like the guy. What else can I say? Read the guy immediately.

This here, Bone Saw, is his latest book, out now by Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, a publisher I hadn't read anything by, but have heard nothing but good things about. For good reason, too...this is a beautiful looking book that completely embodies the vibe the book is going for.

Bone Saw follows a guy, by the name of Liam, much like a many horror fan I have met, and frankly, have been. He works a dead end job, swoons over a girl who is never coming back, and daydreams of becoming a filmmaker, while living a tiny apartment, that he probably only nabbed because it belongs to his aunt.

His absolute favorite studio, Bone Saw Studios, and its proprietor, Clive Sherman, have inexplicably come to his snoozy little town, Bass Falls, to shoot the final film of his favorite franchise, PigFoot.

Liam's stoked! But not for long, because Clive Sherman is a total weiner, hell-bent on murder and destruction, with the aid of a mysteriously sexy and ghastly Spectre of a woman. Not to mention, the PigFoot is real. And he's really crushing skulls, eating innards and straight up ruining everything in his path.

To make matters worse, Liam's new love interest, Maura, is somehow tied to the whole thing and there's a private investigator haunted by his Munchausen-Mothers ghost and addicted to cough syrup!

This thing is wild. It's insane. It's bat-shit bananas. And it's the most fun you can have reading that I can think of. It's a fast moving gorefest, with a loving heart beating full of the blood of horror fans everywhere.

If you're into horror, you've totally hung out with Liam. Clive Sherman is a dead ringer for Charlie Band or Fred Olen Ray. PigFoot is the franchise villain you've never met, who howls Victor Crowley, Cropsy and Bigfoot mashed together. The exact monster I kept seeing when my imagination mustered up the PigFoot, was that from Roger Corman's 80s blast, The Terror Within.

I've met Maura, and all of Liam's stoner buddies...it's the relatable nature of Lacey's characters, who are oh-so-close to my home, they feel like the people I take shots with on a Saturday night at the local punk-dump bar, that tie some reality into the far-out fantastical basis of the book.

I'm going say that Bone Saw is the book where Patrick Lacey has mastered his voice as an author, drawing on the formulas of his previous books, We Came Back and Dream Woods, and tuning it to a fine science.

I loved every second of this thing and highly recommend it to the fans of fast-moving, nod-to-the-masters of the horror genre.

I can't say this enough...READ. PATRICK. LACEY. NOW.

And say hi to him, cuz he's a real nice dude, who gladly accepts when a reader like me fanboys out.

A no questions asked 5/5, and definitely a top read of 2018 for me.

Grab a copy immediately, right here.