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Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror
Body Shocks Extreme Tales of Body Horror Author:Ellen Datlow (Editor) Bestselling editor Ellen Datlow 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, Tananari... more »ve 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. « less
Mostly hits and a few misses, but overall a very strong collection. My favorites were The Look, Pointlessness, Spar and Spores, as well as the last story in the book (I can't remember the name). The last storyw as seriously creepy.