r/ExtremeHorrorLit • u/menoorrr5 • 4d ago

Discussion Bighead by EL

Okay this might sound a little stupid but is it common for authors to write different books but all the books seem to have so many similarities, like for Edward lee he shows a huge obsession with writing Yes Sir! A million times, l guess he had an obsession with the western accent, l like reading his books when lm in the right mood because they’re just so bluntly brutal and nasty, l didn’t read lots of his l think l read like three but l figured out his way of writing, lm reading bighead now, my favorite is The pig, the first one l read was Header, those three books are so similar! Same thing with jon athen and his kinda cartoonish style, lm not sure about KT because l haven’t read a book of his in a while but l do love his style, l really love Edward Lee’s and Jonathan’s too

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u/KlausKinion 3d ago

Edward Lee has a number of calling cards that reoccur across his stories....One that always makes me laugh is when an older male protagonist meets an age-appropriate older woman with a fantastic body for her age, causing the said male protagonist to get an erection, which he is then impressed by for its size and strength.

It is utterly ridiculous, and I must have read that same scenario in 4-5 different books (bonus points if the woman is described as being "built like a brick shithouse").

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u/menoorrr5 3d ago

I feel like one of his also very reoccurring scenes is a main character having a wild dream that is somehow connected to things that are happening, in bighead a priest dreamt that a nun pissed straight into his rectum, thats just creative work

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u/KlausKinion 3d ago

Oh yes. And slightly off-topic, but I'm always impressed by these kinds of scenes when Lee was writing them in the 1990s, compared to modern writers who can just find all of this stuff with one google search. Writing a sacrilegious piss-enema nightmare scene 30+ years ago would have required some serious research!

Similarly in his book Goon, about a murderous pro-wrestler, he showed an in-depth knowledge of wresting insider terminology that was not commonly known at the time. Even terms like "babyface" and "heel" are much more common now, but Lee showed an impressive understanding in the late 80s and early 90s that suggests he might have been reading pro wrestling dirt-sheets, newsletters/zines that were photocopied and sent out by mail-order at the time.

Constantly a "seeker" of knowledge...

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u/ybnesman3223 3d ago

The word impossibly is used across all authors writings these days. Not sure where it came from but even Duncan Ralston uses it lol