Black comedy, gellows humor, transgressive satire – call it what you will, Blood Crazy is all these. Charles Michael Platt has produced a novel that will upset a lot of people. As well it should. Not only does it depict torture, murder, and sado-masochistic sex, it also makes us think about them, whether with horror or secret relish.
 
Michael Dirda, winner of the Pulitzer Price for literary criticism in 1993, and resident critic at The Washington Post