Body Shocks, Ellen Datlow
Body Shocks, Ellen Datlow
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Body Shocks
Extreme Tales of Body Horror

Author: Ellen Datlow

Narrator: Grant Cartwright, Cindy Kay

Unabridged: 14 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022

Categories: Fiction, Anthologies, Horror


Synopsis

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.

About Ellen Datlow

Multiple-award-winning editor Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for more than thirty years. She was the fiction editor of Omni and Sci Fiction magazines and has edited more than fifty anthologies. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sadie on November 04, 2021

Review originally published at Tor Nightfire (October 19th, 2021) [URL not allowed]-datlow... What is body horror? In the introduction to Body Shocks, her newest anthology, Ellen Datlow writes: “It might be the most disturbing type of horror because it deals with the intimacy of the body’......more

Goodreads review by Jaclyn on August 03, 2021

I received an ARC of this book from Netgalley. This is a pretty long short story collection, so let's see if reviewing the stories as I read them is more effective than trying to remember all of them after I finish the book. The Travellers Stay by Ray Cluley- The Metamorphosis if Kafka wasn't all tha......more

Goodreads review by Escapereality4now on September 19, 2023

Are you a fan of body horror? What is body horror? Body Shock” edited by Ellen Datlow, is a collection of 29 stories that will rattle you to the core. The introduction defines body horror for the reader. "It might be the most disturbing type of horror because it deals with the intimacy of the body's......more