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Many horror writers have chronicled the depths of Hell with their fiction. Clive Barker, Edward Lee, Jeffrey Thomas, to name but a few. It's not a new theme, but I haven't read anything that deals with the subject of Hell that is as gleefully perverse as Lee. F. Jordan's Hell's Doctor.

I hadn't heard of Lee Jordan, or his publisher, Black Rose Writing, before Jordan contacted me about doing a possible review of Hell's Doctor. Now, I consider such prospects with equal amounts of anticipation and dread. I never wish to stop giving new writers a try, but I also have experienced some truly dreadful attempts at writing over the years. I was apprehensive, to say the least, but I accepted a review copy of Hell's Doctor.

I was relieved after just a few short pages. This guy, Lee F. Jordan, can write.

Hell Doctor is a diabolical story of Life, or should I say, Death, in Hades. The novel is filled with ever-more elaborate and outrageous scenes of torture, rape, and debasement. The story is kind of a puzzle-box of riddles as two factions go on separate quests to find a black rose that may or may not bring about a way to reverse the gateway from Earth to Hell. In other words, a way for the denizens of Hell to escape to Earth, instead of only allowing the deceased to go to Hell.

Jordan seems to have had a lot of fun writing Hell's Doctor, especially in how he features real-life individuals from the recent past throughout history as they attempt to cop in his deliriously evil vision of Hell. I can only speculate whether writing it was fun for him, but I can confidently predict that readers will have a great time reading Hell's Doctor.

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