Written by: Matthew J. Barbour
Edward Lee is known as the premiere author of hardcore and extreme horror literature. It is books -like Header– which have to come to define the movement.
So what is a header you might ask? Invented by Lee, it is an act of revenge in which the perpetrator drills a hole into the victim’s skull and then inserts his penis into the opening for the purpose of having sexual intercourse with the victim’s cerebral tissue. Unsurprisingly, this results in the victim’s death. The body is then discarded in a field or along a mountain road where it will be found to serve as a dire warning to the rest of the victim’s family.
As a novella, Header follows ATF Agent Stewart Cummings in his investigation of The Russell County Head-Humping Murders. Cummings is not a bad guy, but he is certainly not…
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