Body Shocks
Extreme Tales of Body Horror
Published on 19. October 2021
487 pages
978-1-61696-361-3 (ISBN)
Description
2022 Splatterpunk Award Winner
[STARRED REVIEW] "Hugo Award-winning editor Datlow (Edited By) brings together 29 spine-tingling tales of body horror to terrify even the most seasoned horror reader."
-Publishers Weekly
Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft's Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.
The most terrifying thing that you can possibly imagine is your own body in the hands of a monster. Or worse, in the hands of another human being. In this definitive anthology of body horror selected by a World Horror Grandmaster, you'll find the unthinkable and the shocking: a couture designer preparing for an exquisitely grotesque runway show; a vengeful son seeking the parent who bred him as plasma donor; a celebrity-kink brothel that inflicts plastic surgery on sex workers; and organ-harvesting doctors who dissect a living man without anesthetic.
[STARRED REVIEW] "Hugo Award-winning editor Datlow (Edited By) brings together 29 spine-tingling tales of body horror to terrify even the most seasoned horror reader."
-Publishers Weekly
Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft's Monsters) presents body horror at its most wide-ranging and shocking best. Discover twenty-nine intricate, twisted tales of the human body, soul, and psyche, as told by storytelling legends including Carmen Maria Machado, Richard Kadrey, Seanan McGuire, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Nathan Ballingrud, Tananarive Due, Cassandra Khaw, Christopher Fowler, and many more.
The most terrifying thing that you can possibly imagine is your own body in the hands of a monster. Or worse, in the hands of another human being. In this definitive anthology of body horror selected by a World Horror Grandmaster, you'll find the unthinkable and the shocking: a couture designer preparing for an exquisitely grotesque runway show; a vengeful son seeking the parent who bred him as plasma donor; a celebrity-kink brothel that inflicts plastic surgery on sex workers; and organ-harvesting doctors who dissect a living man without anesthetic.
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Content
- Intro
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Travellers Stay
- Toother
- Painlessness
- You Go Where It Takes You
- A Positive
- La beauté sans vertu
- Subsumption
- Spar
- It Was the Heat
- Atwater
- The Transfer
- Welcome to Mengele's
- Black Neurology-A Love Story
- Cuckoo
- Cinereous
- The Truth That Lies Under Skin and Meat
- Natural Skin
- The Lake
- I'm Always Here
- The Look
- The Old Women Who Were Skinned
- Spores
- Sweet Subtleties
- Elegy for a Suicide
- Skin City
- A True Friend
- What I Found in the Shed
- Fabulous Beasts
- Tissue Ablation and Variant Regeneration: A Case Report
- About the Authors
- About the Editor
