Body shocks : extreme tales of body horror

Book 2021

"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 these 29 tales of body horror selected by World Horror Grandmaster Ellen Datlow, you'll find the unthinkable, the shocking, and more: 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...

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ISBN:

9781616963606

Edition:

First edition

Description:

380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

The travellers stay / Ray Cluley
Toother / Terry Dowling
Painlessness / Kirstyn McDermott
You go where it takes you / Nathan Ballingrud
A positive / Kaaron Warren
La beauté sans vertu / Genevieve Valentine
Subsumption / Lucy Taylor
Spar / Kij Johnson
It was the heat / Pat Cadigan
Atwater / Cody Goodfellow-- The transfer / Edward Bryant
Welcome to Mengele's / Simon Bestwick
Black neurology : a love story / Richard Kadrey
Cuckoo / Angela Slatter
Cinereous / Livia Llewellyn
The truth that lies under skin and meat / Cassandra Khaw
Natural skin / Alyssa Wong
The lake / Tananarive Due
I'm always here / Richard Christian Matheson
The look / Christopher Fowler
The old women who were skinned / Carmen Maria Machado
Spores / Seanan McGuire
Sweet subtleties / Lisa L. Hannett
Elegy for a suicide / Caitlín R. Kiernan
Skin city / Gemma Files
A true friend / Brian Evenson
What I found in the shed / Tom Johnstone
Fabulous beasts / Priya Sharma
Tissue ablation and variant regeneration : a case report / Michael Blumlein

Control Number:

3092238

Other Authors:

Datlow, Ellen, editor

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