These books depend on the administration of violent shocks to the nervous system, and just as the drug addict must progressively increase the size of the doze to obtain the same effect, so, as sensibilities become dulled by the repetition of a particular kind of brutal act, the degree of violence must of necessity increase.
The first five pages of The Harvestmen by me and Sam Costello is now at Split Lip (Click headline). It`ll be 5 pages each Sunday throughout October until all 20 are posted. Go and get horrified.