After 25 years of working in Critical Care with pain, blood, tears and every vile secretion ever to have been expunged from traumatized mortal flesh, Steven Rage is clearly one Fucked Up Unit.  When he isn't knee deep in the horrors in which earns his daily bread, Rage puts pen to paper and delves into the dark side of humanity.  He reaches into the sick and stained recesses of our brain and feeds it, keeping the reader who is in touch with their darker side interested and repulsed.  With graphic scenes of violence, illicit drug use, non-consensual extreme sex and torture Rage spits out his view of a twisted world of that is deeply woven with the intricacies of a dark, drug-infested place ruled by evil forces.  Rage explores the depths of sin, the way it stains our lives, and graphically illustrates the things we fear most. He forces us to look at true sin, true villainy, and truly offensive images of alternative realities. Rage creates a dismal post-industrial future, a look at man defiled and in decline.  Evil has arrived. Dominion has been taken by those who walk as the damned, demons, halflings, products of debauched rampages and sins against nature.  Sex, drugs, and broken souls are the only things of value.  Life is more like a disease, and the only salvation is the right amount of Plata to numb the conscience and, if one is lucky, to bring on a cleverly disguised demise.  Through the sheer shock of his presentation, Rage forces readers to consider the alternatives, to look at the garbage in the streets, to see what is swept into the gutters at night right before all decent people awake to see another cleaned up version of the day. He uses tradition to break tradition, to push the imagination in ways that are uncomfortable at the least and border on the offensive at worst. Yet, in doing so, he illustrates what real Love is.  Rage has created an incredibly detailed and disturbing world of unique, creative, fast paced, brutal, dark, and bizarre novels that are not for the feint of heart.  There is no good without evil. No heaven without hell. No God without the Devil.  The correlation is as clear as fresh blood dripping down the side of a martini glass.  Only those with a drive to read about blood, gore and mega violence should read his books, if any.  Save yourself.  You have been warned.

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Steven Rage has just finished "You Morbid Westphal" and will be published through Evil Nerd Empire press. YMW is slated for a Fall 2009 release. Steven Rage is shopping on the sequal to PILATE, "The Dope Fiend's Holy War". He is now at work on "Bad Notion".