One of the most f***ed up books I've read - Dead Inside by Chandler Morrison

[@anotherbooktubechannel]

I'm not much for extreme horror but the eye appeal of the cover keeps making me want to read this one. Lovely cover. lol "Interfering with the corpses" is the most polite way I've ever heard that phrased. Gonna start sprinkling in "interfering" as a verb in this way in my vocabulary. Tell people to go interfere with themselves 😂

[@thedustbunnyslibrary]

This is the book that got me into the splatter/extreme genre! It was the first I read and I loved it. The humor and absurdity definitely saved it. A lot of these gross-out books are shocking for the sake of it, in a more crude way I think. The dark humor and the main character’s attitude in this one almost makes it feel like a parody.

[@crims0ngrin]

YES LOL. I had such a good time reading this and the humor DEFINITELY helped me get through the tough parts

[@michaelk.vaughan8617]

“…makes the book more digestible.” HA!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

LOL!

[@Kritz_Reads]

I've def. heard mixed things about this one, but so glad to hear you were entertained by it! Pretty sure I have it on my kindle, so I should try to get to it soon, as I loved exquisite corpse (I read last month)

[@Flyingsaucey1984]

My fiancé and I like to find awful, weird, and bizarre books to read. We read this about 2 months ago together. By far the most fucked up thing we’ve read to date. We loved it and are lending it to my sister and other friends.

[@MrFredstt]

Def super fucked up. It just kept going lower and lower. Reading with your girl is wild lmfao but cool you and her can do that and she doesn't get offended about it

[@ssmith4900]

I think you are right about the dark humour running through this book which kept me going through some parts which were grim to say the least. I was surprised how it actually made me feel sympathetic for a necrophiliac by watching things spin out of his control by breaking his own book of cardinal rules on how to exist aside from society.

[@MrBlack-wt5er]

As nutty as this book sounds it actually sounds as though it would be vary entertaining! If I see it around I might get it, it has a memorable book cover too...

[@lynnlovesyou887]

I can already tell I'm gonna love this video, Olly!! 😊

[@emmiewilliams7546]

Loved the way you😊 described this book. Can't wait to read it

[@sophiaisabelle027]

Keep up the good work, Olly. God bless you.

[@AndieJxoxo]

Hi Olly. Am currently reading this book and I have got to say that for me, this book makes me laugh out loud at times. I'm not sure what that says about me, but the black humour resonates. I did find myself saying "oh my god" whilst laughing at the section in the clinic where Helen gives him his "present", as this is so just so gross and over the top and not something I will forget in a hurry! I did think about dnf'ing when I first started it but I am glad I haven't. It's quite the ride!

[@johncollins3156]

i agree that Brite's Exquisite Corpse is a better book, but Dead Inside had a very compelling style. There were a few sequences that just made me think "What the f**k!"

[@SheilaTheGrate]

I grabbed it on Audible when you mentioned it in a previous video. I am enjoying it so far. It is pretty f@&ked up and funny. I agree with your conclusion whole heartedly.

[@wakkawakka900]

Omg I can't imagine this on audible 😂😂😯 lol. Let me ride around the neighborhood listening to this shit 🤣 on the way to work 😂😂😂Yes!!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Ha ahahaha!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

God I can't imagine reading some of this out loud!

[@SheilaTheGrate]

@@CriminOllyBlog It's a glorious trip indeed. 🤣 The narrator is really good. He kind of sounds like Joel from You. Unfortunately, one of the things that I find hilarious is when men mimic women's voices stereotypically. So this doc is talking about chowing down on dead babies and I am trying not to laugh my ass off on the plane back from California. 🤣🤣🤣 At least I was on the aisle. 🤣

[@CriminOllyBlog]

@@SheilaTheGrate LOL that's great!

[@johnward5404]

Haven’t read this yet but I think about his other book ALONG THE PATH OF TORMENT which was one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever read. I didn’t love it when I started it but by the end I was soooo soooo pleased. Great book but extremely graphic depictions of sex, violence, etc. Keep going strong Olly good to see you!

[@AWCMCultMovies]

Yes, I loved Along the Path of Torment, and I think that with all its noir elements, Olly would too.

[@AWCMCultMovies]

Olly, if you're going to read another Chandler Morrison, you'd do well to consider "Along the Path of Torment," a gruesome showbiz noir set in the seedy underbelly of sunny Los Angeles. The main character is compelling, the setpieces are suitably extreme, and there's even a bit of magic realism thrown in for spice.

[@FinalGirlHorror]

I can't find a copy of this book anywhere. It is available for kindle but I really want a hard copy.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

There’s a link in the description to the video 😊

[@badrad9226]

Fantastic review on Dead Inside. It’s still my number 1 favorite. Once you are dead inside that’s it 💀

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Glad you enjoyed it! And yeah it was a wild read

[@Satans_Little_Helper]

My wife actually knows the author of this book. I didn't even know it was popular until I started seeing reviews of it everywhere.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Oh, that's pretty cool!

[@issymartin6197]

Hi Olly, can’t wait to watch!! Love your videos😊👋

[@lordramoth3416]

Bought based on this video! Read the sample and it’s shockingly hilarious so I look forward to seeing how low it can go!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Oh it gets very low 😂🤮

[@lordramoth3416]

@@CriminOllyBlog 🫣👀

[@crimsonwhispersva2498]

I am reading this right now and from page one it hooked me in, i do agree this book needs to have trigger warnings though because like u said allot will dislike this... i am 100 pages in so i will have it finished by tomorrow. But to me i have found it fascinating.... its like a car crash its horroible to see but u cannot look away

[@dawn428]

Just put it on my list & love the cover 😮

[@ulyssesgonzalez2068]

Just finished reading, definitely agree with your video title. But it also had me laughing out loud several times, which helped take the edge off what horrific content I was reading. This one doesn't take itself too seriously, as I thought Exquisite Corpse did. Nonetheless, both are great horror books but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone for their book clubs.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Yeah there is definitely a strong vein of (very) dark humour

[@michellesmelancholia]

I had fun with this one mostly because I appreciated the author's sense of humour but I actually thought the twist was too predictable hehe There was a scene that I did think was offensive and jut not cool, but then I thought the point of the book was to make the reader uncomfortable so it definitely got me there. I don't know.... I read this like 2 years ago and I'm still undecided wether to rate it 4 stars or 2 🤭

[@SamuelBlack84]

Just imagine this book adapted into a film 😅

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I’d rather not 😂

[@jokawild555]

It would be illegal, I think.

[@sophhnavarro]

This one sounds like a spicy one that maybe needs to be bookended by some more wholesome reads lol definitely intrigued though

[@emmasullivan2918]

Love your videos!

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Thank you so much!

[@anotherbibliophilereads]

This book wasn’t recently put on my Amazon pile of possibilities, but I can’t remember who else mentioned it. The other review wasn’t as detailed.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

A few people have covered it I think

[@eriebeverly]

I read Dead Inside off a recommendation. It was okay and I appreciated the dark comedy. Morrison is a better technical writer then you get in a lot of these throw everything against a wall and see what glops down kind of pieces.

[@LiterateTexan]

It's hard to compete with Poppy Z. Brite, isn't it? What a great writer. "Geek Love" was a real treat, too. I'm not sure I'm sold on "Dead Inside", though.

[@LiterateTexan]

@@pickyourpopculturepoison Absolutely. Couldn't agree more.

[@meganmong2262]

Hate to Feel has some nods and reference Dead Inside throughout. Both books very entertaining but quite extreme.

[@yoon-lihan6217]

Oh I just remembered! Olly go check hate to feel .it's by the same author nd it's a fun read nd there is many "dead inside " references. Nd could u do a review for high life by Matthew stockoe? If u remember it's the same author of cows

[@fiberartsyreads]

I still can’t decide if I want to read this one. 😂

[@CriminOllyBlog]

It's quite a ride

[@jackthereader]

I feel as though your differentiation between effed up and disturbing reflects a strong truth about horror fiction. One of the first Gothics, Ann Radcliffe, described the difference between horror that expands the consciousness and that which annihilates it. Expansion involves terror and mystery, annihilation involves, well, “people doing horrific things”.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

That’s a great distinction

[@knittenpurl4274]

I know this is an older video, but I am reading this right now. It is making me feel like I am going to be on some sort of FBI list (like the anarchist cookbook hahaha). It's so disturbing that I don't even want to put it on my goodreads as a book that I have read this year. People know I am weird, but not that weird. :)

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Yeah it really is quite extreme 😂

[@lynnlovesyou887]

Yep, great video! Loved it! Love you, too, buddy!!

[@BookBlather]

I didn’t really get this book. I didn’t dislike it. I thought it was engaging, and I think some comments I’ve heard about it being not well written are unfair… I think he writes very well. I was feeling like it was supposed to be about two people who can’t relate to others, due to their odd proclivities, who end up meeting and finding some understanding and solace with each other. But if so, then it failed to deliver on that front, and the ending was ridiculous. In the end, it seemed to me to be primarily gore for gore’s sake, though there’s wrong with that.

[@reneemcmurtrie5247]

I just bought this after reading the sample on my kindle, so far I’m loving it if I’m being honest, though I’m sure I can already predict the ending. Some parts had me laughing but over all so far I’m not entirely horrified or disgusted. I’ve read worse. But so far I’d give it a 6/10

[@bobcabot]

ja since serial-killer became pop-stars here on KZbin and some of them did become writers themselves too afterwards, it is hard for "normal" authors to keep up with fiction that goes really under your skin, so that alone is now an achievement in itself... a "funny" merger of that theme if you will is Katzenbachs "Red 1 2 3"...

[@cadcar13]

Yep, that’ll be a no from me! Thanks for reading it for us! 😊

[@Kikilang60]

I don't say this lightly, but the best pilot episode in the history of Tellivision might be "Dead Like Me." Taste is always subjective, but honestly the pilot was amazing for a TV show. The writer, and producer was Brian Fuller, whe went on later to do the show Hannible. Sadly, Fuller was kicked off the series after five episode, because MGM wanted a feel good family show, which the show was, but it had lines like, "Stealing from the dead is like necrophilia in that it's a victimless crime, but it just doesn't feel right." The first five episode are great too, but after that the show changed. MGM was very vindictive, and they hounded the actors after the series was over, and ruined their careers. I never recommend anything, but if you can find the Pilot, and maybe watch the first five episodes, it's worth the effort.

[@davidbrian6498]

I agree with everything you just said. Loved the early episodes of Dead Like Me. I hung in there for the duration, hoping it'd regain its initial zip. Sadly not, although I was still disappointed when it got canned. Interesting what you say about the actors getting grief from the studio. Why was that?

[@baxtersmom279]

I really enjoyed the whole show. I didn’t find it until after it had been cancelled.

[@ZydePunk]

I liked it because it was so bleak and fucked up but was still a good story.

[@heidifogelberg3544]

I have a question, Olly. I was around for the debut Shock and Awe of American Psycho, back before it became clear how meta the book was. Is this a similar situation? Does this book have that kind of underlying critique structure?

[@Sweet_Z_Official]

I remember watching a review of this book. I've read even more disturbing books like Cows and Billy Silver. Also, I'm writing a book about a group of anthropomorphic cats in a similar fashion to gang life.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Your book has me intrigued!

[@Sweet_Z_Official]

@@CriminOllyBlog Yep. Did my research and wrote down everything on my notebook. It's not published yet. But I'm still working on it now. Wish me luck. 😉👍

[@geslinam9703]

American Psycho was about as disturbing as I have ever gotten…maybe The End of Alice too. And most recently Tender is the Flesh. I don’t like these types of books, so usually only read them when I absolutely can’t find anything else, then I regret it later.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

They do leave a mark sometimes.

[@jhonni13]

Finished it over 2 days. I rather liked it. Yes it was fucked up but the themes resonated. The nihilism. The push and pull of conformity. Like you, the twist at the end was just out of left field for me. Could've done without it. It felt tacked on/cheap. But I will read more by this author. Enjoyed the wit.

[@amya8155]

Don’t think I’ve fully recovered from Hogg… I did finally manage to sell that book though to another poor soul

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Ha! Yeah it's given me a hangover too

[@Dhampir1987]

Ohhhh I've heard about this one. It's certainly on the very messed up level.

[@irinanka]

A few years ago, Jordaline Reads totally annihilated this book and its author and then ripped the book apart on camera, it was hilarious. She was having none of it. She literally pulled it to pieces 😂

[@vinhobrien1142]

Yessss I watched it and read this book myself. I couldn’t stand the book lmao.

[@WilliamsLibrary]

Olly, why did you have to mention Hogg again?! It's all right! 😜

[@augustwillman2690]

I hated this book. Not because of the extremity but because of the pretty obvious misogyny.

[@JungianHeights]

The author has a terrible, thinly-veiled persona of being self-obsessed, so it isn’t surprising.

[@M-J]

Oh gosh…preparing myself. I don’t think this is my cup of tea. Yep. Nope. I’ll pass. Even with the dark humour, I’m going to pass on this one. - 📚MJ

[@BookBlather]

I think this one would make your head explode, MJ.

[@M-J]

@@BookBlather Yeah, spidey sense tells me to stay away. 😂🤣

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Danger, Will Robinson!

[@M-J]

@@CriminOllyBlog I bet « cursed book » will find its way to me!

[@JessicaSzempruch]

Another title for me to stay away from. There are lines I can’t cross, and don’t wish to as I value my sanity. I appreciate dark humor and gore, but some content, no matter how presented, I don’t think I will ever be able to take.

[@Toracube]

Lol when crim says a book is raked up you know it’s pretty faked up lol

[@CriminOllyBlog]

LOL!

[@jamessmithfitness309]

Dead Inside is just shock value and totally unrealistic. There is no psychological dread whatsoever. I will give it credit for dark humor though.

[@BookBlather]

Agreed.

[@wendyvilla2904]

🖤💚

[@lindabyers4557]

Nope. Nope. Nope.🙅

[@CriminOllyBlog]

Shall I put you down as a maybe?

[@lindabyers4557]

@@CriminOllyBlog 😂😂😂

[@aliarobinson6617]

I loved dead inside. I gave it a full 5 stars. I have gone on to read and love all of this author's works. I can't recommend #thighgap more if I tried. it is incredible. He just gets better and better.

[@TomHuckACAB]

This book comes off as camp to me.

[@CriminOllyBlog]

I can see that...

[@thefictionkitten_]

it definitely is the most fucked up book, but it’s well written 😂

[@Brianpfromoz88]

Sweeney Todd

[@DDB168]

Dead Inside....Exquisite Corpse......🥱🥱 Yeh nah. Try Excellent Cadavers (Alexander Stille) instead 😉