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    Diseased Libido - Eventualities (Collecting Issues 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12)
    Diseased Libido - Eventualities (Collecting Issues 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12)
    Diseased Libido - Eventualities (Collecting Issues 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12)
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    Diseased Libido - Eventualities (Collecting Issues 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12)

    By Carter Rydyr

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    Diseased Libido is an anthology of warped speculative fiction stories encompassing horror, science fiction, fantasy, crime, satire and the bizarre ranging from the mild to the extreme.
    This volume collects all six Even numbered issues and includes:

    “Wildthings”. An aging alien gangster and his artificially intelligence enhanced ape henchman attend an illegal fighting match where beautiful women who have been lethally enhanced fight to the death in an arena.

    “The Baying”. In a lonely street, in a quiet suburban neighbourhood, the silence of the night is broken by a hound’s infernal baying. An investigation by a disturbed sleeper reveals unimaginable horror – nightmarish experiments creating human and animal monstrosities.

    “Mutant Dawn”. Something strange is happening to Sally. She is changing into something not quite human. It’s happening to women and girls everywhere, and not just to those in the small suburbs where Sally lives. The authorities are helpless, the world’s experts are baffled. No-one knows what causes it, or how to stop it. Things are never going to be the same again, not ever!

    “Zombizoic”. In a foreboding forest on a distant world, two stranded men from a highly advanced, spacefaring civilization face the unspeakable horror of a primitive tribe that uses arcane supernatural forces to raise an army of living dead warriors.

    And many more strange and surreal tales - For Mature Readers.

    Apart from the Diseased Libido anthology series, other titles by Carter Rydyr include:
    Hostile Earth - Special Delivery
    Hostile Earth - Recreation & Grorl
    Sisterhood of the Serpent
    Jungle Ghoul Goddess (Alien Eden)
    Attack of the Gorlocks (Alien Eden)
    Quahbi (Alien Eden)
    Raw Recruit (Welcome to the Hellhole)
    Raw Recruit - Operation: Rabbitfire
    Pain Pig’s Progress Book One
    Pain Pig’s Progress Book Two - Great Expectorations

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStorm Publishing
    Release dateJul 16, 2012
    ISBN9781476475080
    Diseased Libido - Eventualities (Collecting Issues 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12)
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    Carter Rydyr

    The strange and bizarre works of Steve Carter and Antoinette Rydyr (S.C.A.R.) incorporates anything from Sci Fi and horror fantasy to surrealism and weird satire. All of it has a strong element of the fantastic and a healthy dose of experimentalism. They create in a variety of mediums – prose fiction, illustration, comic books, screenplays and even music, which they produce with their experimental bands FistFunk Futurists and TeknoSadisT. Their screenplay "Curse of the Swampies" won Best Feature Film Screenplay at the A Night of Horror International Film Festival 2010. Current projects include new comics, more audio experiments and prose stories. There are also a number of screenplays and novellas in the works.

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      Diseased Libido - Eventualities (Collecting Issues 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12) - Carter Rydyr

      DISEASED LIBIDO

      EVENTUALITIES

      Collecting Books 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12

      by

      Carter Rydyr

      SMASHWORDS EDITION

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      Diseased Libido - Eventualities

      Copyright 1992, 2012 by Carter Rydyr

      http://www.weirdwildart.com/

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      DISEASED LIBIDO - EVENTUALITIES

      Table of Contents

      ZOMBIZOIC

      WILDTHINGS

      THE BAYING

      MUTANT DAWN

      THE PROMISE

      THE ONE

      NOT ANOTHER FUCKING VAMPIRE STORY

      BLASPHERON

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      ZOMBIZOIC

      Now came the part of the journey Feld was dreading. There was no alternative but to leave the relative safety of the clear ridges and descend into the dangerous forest. Worse still was the fact that half the day had already gone. That meant he’d still be within the forest when night fell.

      Feld carefully edged his way down the incline of loose rocks, sliding part of the way, near falling the rest. It was an exhaustive and hazardous descent and at the end of it he was grazed and shaken. He stood amid the cool shadows of immense trees. Their snarled roots were semi-obscured by stenching clods of grey turf, patchy with moldering lichen.

      He was at least three hundred feet below the jutting peaks. On gazing upward he was unable to see the top of the ridge he’d been walking along an hour before due to the sprawling, knotted branches and vibrant explosions of enmassed herbage.

      There were no trails, only underbrush, fungi, and the occasional flash of grey silt and soft, pulpy rock. Feld moved off into the thick of it trying his best to keep to a vaguely northerly direction, eyes and ears alert, machete slashing away at the numerous tendrils of vine and cluttered undergrowth. It was tedious, tiring work beset with countless detours.

      Feld estimated that at least nine miles of this tangled forest lay directly between him and the encampment and that at the rate he was progressing he wasn’t going to get back until well into the night. As he plodded along, Feld thought about how he’d gotten himself in this predicament.

      It had certainly been a rotten day, starting out as it had with an argument with Blake over who was going to do the reconnaissance and who was going to erect the safety-field around the perimeter of the encampment. In fact, since the two men had been confined in a tiny spacecraft for such an extended period while travelling through deep space, such trivial arguments had become common. Over the long time they had been flying missions together they seldom, if ever, bickered and had become close friends. But this trip had been by far the longest and most arduous, despite the valuable time that had been gained by jumping through Null-space, which presented additional and unique problems of its own.

      On finally reaching this distant outworld, the quarrelling hadn’t stopped. The men desperately needed a break from one another. Feld wound up on recon duty with the grav-boat. It was a relief – some solitude at last, along with a golden opportunity to do some brief surveying on a completely new, mysterious world.

      He’d been less than an hour out when he was knocked out of the air. The creatures had come up from the forest canopy unbelievably fast. A swarm so dense they obscured all. A crash was unavoidable and Feld had been lucky to survive, let alone walk away from it. The grav-boat was totaled along with everything in it including the com-unit, so there was no possibility of notifying Blake.

      It had not been until he’d crawled from the wreckage that Feld actually examined one of the creatures he’d flown into. He’d crouched down close but did not touch it. It laid contorted, feathered wings outspread. Its head was a cross between a toad and a lizard’s with horny plates atop set like louvers and extending down its wide back. It was the first of this planet’s fauna Feld had seen up close. As far as he was concerned it was a gross and ugly thing.

      Feld had only a machete with which to lug it back. The trek had gone on well enough while he’d been travelling over relatively high and uncluttered terrain but now that he was in the forest it seemed as if he’d come to a stand still.

      There was a sudden rustle of vegetation and scant seconds later Feld found himself surrounded on all sides by human figures. He knew that to attempt to fight them with only a machete was senseless. They not only outnumbered him, they were also well armed.

      They were men not unlike him but their skin was discolored, graying, and spotted with infection. The odor of putrefaction exuded strongly from them. They held their stone-tipped spears scant inches from his face and throat while their unblinking eyes coldly held his. The silence was mind-numbing,

      Feld had a good look at them. They stood perfectly still and appeared to not breathe. Some of them had ghastly wounds upon their bland faces and gaunt bodies, unhealed wounds that had turned into great open sores like tropical ulcers.

      A female voice rang out. It was high-pitched and carried a note of arrogance. The spearmen parted as a woman shuffled through their ranks, squeaking in a language Feld found incomprehensible. In her thin hand she carried a whip fashioned from plaited vines and spoke in an imperious manner as she checked him over with amber eyes. Her voice grated on his nerves.

      Feld found little that could be considered as alien in her very human physical appearance. She was small, agile and not unattractive, with wild hair framing her face. However, the woman’s demeanor was particularly dour and her lips appeared to be bent into a permanent sneer.

      Feld knew from experience that First Contact with new sentient species was always a sensitive issue and it was always fraught with difficultly. His intuition told him that this encounter certainly wasn’t going to be a smooth one. The alien woman was now standing uncomfortably close to him. As he further studied her, Feld braced himself for the worst and took a cautious step back, giving himself some space. The woman stepped forward, closing the gap.

      A dark, roughly trimmed and stitched animal pelt hugged her body from neck to knees. About her wrists and slim biceps were bracelets of bleached bone and feathers. Tiny birdlike skulls decorated her hair. She became incensed when she realized that Feld was unable to understand her.

      Feld just stood there shaking his head and babbling in what he hoped was a friendly sounding voice. The alien woman barked more orders and cracked her whip. Immediately, a spearman tied Feld’s hands behind his back while another claimed his machete. After an angry shout and a sharp whip-crack Feld’s machete was given up to the woman.

      The group set off in a westerly direction. Feld and the woman walked in the centre of a circle of spearmen. They weaved their way among clusters of fungoid pods, dangling vines and dank clumps of stenching vegetation following a confusing

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