The stories in Reanimation Games -- the fifth collection of Tim Seeley's Hack/Slash horror/spoof series, is a mixed bag of severed heads.

Cassie Hack, slasher survivor and slayer, takes a break from trying to track down her long-absent father to chase after a masked killer in "The Coldest Dish." However, it turns out the man with the knife isn't entirely the bad guy here. Meanwhile, a demon horse-dog -- once in thrall to demon Elvis -- is running loose on the streets. And an elderly woman with visions is pinning a series of brutal killings on, you guessed it, our girl Cassie.

Next, an Internet-obsessed lunatic becomes one with the World Wide Web and wreaks havoc among the Suicide Girls, a real-life group of women who pierce and tattoo themselves and pose naked for their website so that people who buy memberships can ogle their boobs and, um, be inspired to ... look, I don't really understand the Suicide Girls, so if you need to know, go take a look and figure it out for yourself. Anyway, Cassie decides the best way to catch the cyberspace killer is to pose nude, too. (No, you don't get to see her naked in the book, but you do get to see other Suicide Girls nude and, if you pay a membership fee to the actual website, I think you get to see drawings of naked Cassie in all her cartoony glory. No, I'm not going to research it for you.) This is not, in my opinion, one of the high points in the series so far. Neither is the nightmare about killer Milk & Cheese that follows, nor the extended sequence about a mini-killer on the set of an ill-conceived remake of The Wizard of Oz.

The last portion of this book is the only section I can truly say I enjoyed to the max. Cassie and her partner Vlad encounter Herbert West, the title character of a series of Reanimator B-movies based loosely on a short story by horror master H.P. Lovecraft. West attempts to strengthen his own reanimating fluid with the blood of a dead slasher -- in this case, Cassie's mom, the dreaded Lunch Lady -- and Cassie's missing father is finally revealed. While the father-daughter reunion is a little anticlimactic, this is still a family get-together you've got to see.