Lobster Girl

    (Dakuwaka, 2007)
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This strange, tragic, and graphically violent tale of Love, obsession, and ultimate betrayal has both surprised and disgusted readers and critics alike. Author J. Morvay claims the story sprang from his own obsession with a stripper afflicted with the same physical deformity as his fictional character, and that he himself nearly followed through with drastic surgery to prove his love.

In his story, Lobster Girl, the psychologically-damaged daughter of a side-show carnival freak, must find her long-lost son before the child’s father—a psychotic, blind albino rapist/butcher!—finds the child first and claims the kid’s supernatural abilities for his own by eating the still-beating heart!

But wait, it gets better! The story is told through the eyes of a man so obsessed with Lobster Girl that he has his own hands surgically replaced with claws like those of his Love. But despite his complete devotion he simply observes from the shadows, allowing his beloved and her child to face countless atrocities alone.

— Joseph Self
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August, 2007
Cover Price: $2.99
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