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MyGarofoli Door

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Porte, vetrate e rivestimenti in legno: configura i tuoi ambienti con un click! MyGarofoli Door è...

Pizza Vs. Skeletons

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40% OFF to celebrate the launch of our latest game, MUL.MASH.TAB.BA.GAL.GAL, for a very limited...

The Inner World

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The Inner World – A hilarious and critically acclaimed 2D-Point’n’Click Adventure. Robert...

AmyBee (4 KP) rated The Damnation Game in Books

Sep 6, 2018

This novel has to be one of, if not THE sickest, goriest horror novels I have ever read. For that reason, I LOVED it! The plot is strong, the characters are entertaining and the scare-factor is off the scale!
It soon becomes clear that the author of this novel is the same guy who wrote and directed the first HELLRAISER film. His ability to 'think outside the box' in his writing is evident with certain tropes in this novel that I wouldn't have even thought existed but are absolutely terrifying. I was blown away.

I love the way that horror and comedy seem to be interchanged in this novel in a way that makes the horror even sicker. As the reader, once you realise that certain scenes are actually making you chuckle, it makes YOU feel like the sick one for daring to laugh at such a grim scene. It takes a great writer to be able to do this and to pull it off without coming across like they are just trying to cash in a cheap gag and Barker has this skill down to a T. Excellent stuff!

Just one thing annoyed me about this and that is the two young Jehovah's Witnesses who make an appearance somewhere like halfway through the novel. I thought their characters were far more 2D than all the rest were, and they could have been written much better. To me, they were just not believable at all.