Body shocks : extreme tales of body horror

Author

Ellen Datlow

Call Number

• FICTION BODY (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

San Francisco, CA : Tachyon, 2021.

Physical Description

380 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Summary

"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" --

Contents

• Travellers stay / Toother / Painlessness / You go where it takes you / A positive / Beauté sans vertu / Subsumption / Spar / It was the heat / Atwater / Transfer / Welcome to Mengele's / Black neurology : a love story / Cuckoo / Cinereous / Truth that lies under skin and meat / Natural skin / Lake / I'm always here / Look / Old women who were skinned / Spores / Sweet subtleties / Elegy for a suicide / Skin city / True friend / What I found in the shed / Fabulous beasts / Tissue ablation and variant regeneration : a case report