Roman Dirge is one SICK dude! Therefore they have a huge hit on their hands with I Can Count To Ten as there are a lot of other disturbed individuals out there.
I am glad that he put the disclaimer in I Can Count To Ten (and I read it) as you know (as Dirge mentions) that people will buy this book thinking it is a cute, child-friendly book about learning to count. (However, it probably should be on the cover, not a page or two in because the cover isn’t “cute-cute, but it does lean towards a more funky “cute”). Because oh NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! This is soooooo far from friendly as I am from the moon! This book is about how much abominable, awful, creepy, disgusting, distasteful, foul, gross, gruesome, hateful, horrific, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, obnoxious, odious, outrageous, repugnant, revolting, scandalous, shameless, shocking, vile, vulgar and not to mention ghastly, grody, hideous, skuzzy, yucky stuff that can be crammed into it.
This is if Sesame Street decided to take the worst acid trip ever on purpose. This is how we can make a counting book into a horror book. I knew something was up with the disclaimer, but I did not expect the end pages showing us the cute critters of the story (if not a bit oddballs) being eaten by some fuzzy angel fish (Okay, I knew something was up, as the second end pages showed a headless critter, a zombie and more, but still, that did not prepare me for the bloodbath). And all of this was done in the one of the most possibly graphic manner known to man without getting themselves canceled. I think he might have given Stephen King a run for his money.
Currently available, I had the unfortunate opportunity to read this book online. The only good thing is I have now found something to read and/or think of when I need to curb my appetite so much that I want to hurl (and not just my computer out of the window). With that all said, Dirge has one unique style that is going to be a huge hit with the right adult audience. I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo not that audience.