
Best New Horror 2003 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: vol. 14, edited by Stephen Jones,
2003 edition, ISBN 0786712376.
Dark Funeral has called it “one of the most unique horror novels to come along in a long time.”
Cinema Slaughter calls it "A gut wrenching nightmare of a story that is an intelligent piece of horror fiction.
Stefan Isaksson from UFO-Sverge calls it "a grotesque story filled with extreme violence, ritualistic sex, macabre rites, and horrible acts of cruelty...I found myself drawn into the story right from the start."
Adam Groves of The Bedlam Files calls it "A very strange little novel that’s obtained some minor popularity on the underground circuit."
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