pickThis was fun! Some of the stories were just meh, but some were great. I think Spores made me squirm the most, but I hate fungi. I even have a hard time when using mushrooms in my cooking. Molds and fungi…😰
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pickThis was fun! Some of the stories were just meh, but some were great. I think Spores made me squirm the most, but I hate fungi. I even have a hard time when using mushrooms in my cooking. Molds and fungi…😰
I have been on a Hellraiser high this whole week. In the first movie, blood dripped on the floor by Larry allows Frank to come back from hell. In the 2nd, a psychopath gives his patient who thinks roaches are always crawling on him a razor and his blood on a mattress allows Julia (pictured) to come back. The short story shown reminds me of both scenes. It‘s maybe 3 pages long and it is visceral, witchy, and wonderful. Happy Saturday, Littens!!!
pickI love horror fiction, but it's uncommon for me to be unsettled by the genre. One notable exception though is body horror. One of the most memorable reading experiences of my life was reading Nick Cutter's The Troop. Or certain Junji Ito works. When I heard that anthologist extraordinaire Ellen Datlow would be releasing a volume of body horror short fiction, I was immediately intrigued. The only piece in the collection that I had previously👇
This is one of my favorite stories in the tagged anthology & it was right after another favorite: Carmen Maria Machado's The Old Women Who Were Skinned. Reminds me that I need to read more McGuire AND read Machado's story collection.
If I encounter a story that I have read before in an anthology I often skip it, but Ballingrud is such a fantastic writer that I gladly just read this one again in the tagged book. I have read only one collection by him, but really should read more because it was as they say *chef's kiss*
pickEllen Datlow is the editor of this collection of horror stories with the theme of body horror. Datlow is probably the best editor there is with regard to short stories in the horror or fantasy genres. Her Best Horror of the Year collections are unmatched and I highly recommend them. This book does not disappoint and is full of truly frightening tales. If horror is your thing, you will enjoy this book. Five stars.
pickGoing into this, I thought this was going to be torture and pain rough, but it wasn‘t. Yes, some were gross and I wouldn‘t recommend eating while reading this, but besides one meh story out of 29, they were great. There was a lesbian couple and their daughter at the beginning of a mold apocalypse, a description of a werewolf woman eating of a fat accountant that sounded so sumptuous and delicious, an autopsy whose ME‘s blood sacrifice into 👇🏼
I liked this sentence. From “I‘m Always Here,” by Richard Christian Matheson. Photo is of artist Peter Pavlesnkiy in his artistic form of protest against the Russian government.
In a book of body horror themed short stories, I would never have guessed there would be one about the fashion industry. As someone who watched the first 6 seasons of America‘s Next Top Model back in the day, I was into it. It‘s so satirically scathing, making fun of all the pretentiousness, and yet, it manages to boil it down into a moment of beauty right before that last paragraph that knifes you in the back. Sooo good this story.
Just picked up this anthology of body horror yesterday. The cover looks like something Clive Barker would have done. The table contents is pretty awesome. Read the first story and even though it is about a family being caught at a roach motel and turning into roaches themselves it had a nice little lesson about life. I 🖤 horror.
pickI enjoyed these stories, though I'm not sure all are body horror and I don't think most of them are especially extreme. There's some gnarly bits, to be sure, but I was expecting worse, or at least a higher level of gnarly consistency.
Speaking of body horror, I have pre-ordered this book and if it's painfully straight and/or custom I am going to be disappointed!
