Published by Anarchy Books and edited by Andy Remic and Wayne Simmons, this e-book only collection buries you alive with 22 tales of weird, deviant and twisted horror fiction. Although the anthology has the occasional dud, the quality of the writing, the oddness of the situations and the gurgling horror in the majority of tales is of the very highest quality. This is exemplified by opener "Plastipak™ Limited" by Neal Asher, a fast-moving slice of sci-fi horror, set in a strange nightmarish factory. When an unwitting gardener enters the factory in search of the manager in order to pass on his invoice for some landscaping works, he finds himself caught in a gruesome mystery. "You Always Remember Your First" by Lee Harris tells the taboo-heavy story of a man whose bad luck with women changes when he gets a new job in a funeral home. James Lovegrove's character-driven story "Bible Basher" tells the tale of a bible-quoting misogynist who meets a very literal fate at the hands of his long-suffering wife. "Kitty Wants a Hitty" by Wayne Simmons is a grim and gritty tale of drug addiction and prostitution that is full of vengeful violence and black, black humour. "Pipework" by Adrian Tchaikovsky is a weird ghost story (of a sort) based around gross-out plumbing conundrums and full of stinking gross-out laughs. Three stories in the collection really stood out for me. First of these is perhaps the most out-of-context piece in the collection, "Wind Project NX104" by Jordan Reyne, which is nothing less than an AI "love" story. Reyne's tale about Windmachine H443, a wind turbine that develops the ability to vocalise and subsequently develops a strange relationship with his technician is strange, other-worldly, ambitious, creative and immensely touching. Splatter hack-meister, the great Guy N. Smith's contribution to the anthology is "Zombie Gunfighter", which tells about the vicious Circle D Boys, Sheriff Black and tribal witch doctor Black Snake who conjures up a nasty and grisly fate for the Circle D gunfighters. This is a hugely appealing blend of pulp horror, pulp western and old west vengeance. Finally "Tales from the Zombible" by Ian Watson tells the story of the Wandering Zombie who was once bitten by the blessed Jeshua himself and now spreads His infectious blessing. This is a clever (though slightly erratic) retelling of the Bible as a zombie religious text – inventive, witty surreal, perplexing and hugely enjoyable. Overall "Vivisepulture: Weird Tales of Twisted Imagination" is an excellent anthology with some really great, high-quality tales that is well worth hunting down. ( )