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"It's understood that hardcore death-metal rockers or urban gothic punks would find themselves in possession of this book," writes the editor. "But we are also aware that there are others--mothers and housewives, businessmen and laymen--who would be just as delighted..." Subtitled A Celebratory Excursion into Beautiful Extremes of Life, Lust & Death, Funeral Party II is explicitly dedicated to death eroticism. The book's design, layout, and illustrations are varied and beautiful. The 16 full-color plates are by artists such as Trevor Brown and George Kuchar. The fiction includes stories by Lucy Taylor, Rob Hardin, John Shirley, Jack Ketchum, and Thomas S. Roche. A prose piece by surrealist artist Hans Bellmer is illustrated with his distinctively tortuous visions of the female body. Article topics include the sleaziest tabloids in America, contemporary Grand Guignol theater, lesbian bars of pre-Nazi Berlin, actor Ulli Lommel (of Fassbinder fame), and pathology specimens. There's also a comic by Miguel Ángel Martín, the road-kill sculptures of Milo Sacchi, interviews, and reviews. Warning: Funeral Party II is graphically sexual, and is only for adults who are not easily offended.

Shock Cinema

"This gorgeous edition covers the wonderful world of death and violence at its most extreme. This is a beautiful work, loaded iwth artwork--much of which is sure ot offend--and always pushes the envelope in an effort to shed light on the darker niches of human ecstasy."