Bodies are just bodies, right? Whether it’s the killer physique that gets her tons of followers on social media or the corpse that she’s stealing from a funeral home to sell on the black market, Poppy hasn’t thought much about bodies other than what they can do for her. But when a corpse pickup goes horribly, violently wrong one night, Poppy is forced to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about bodies and their value. Chuck Tingle’s latest horror novel, Fabulous Bodies, is an equally thoughtful and terrifying work of body horror. I highly recommend the audiobook, which is narrated by Mara Wilson (whom fellow millennials will recognize as the actress from beloved childhood movie Matilda). Continue reading Review of Fabulous Bodies—Brilliant Body Horror
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Review of The City in the Middle of the Night
That which is most alien and monstrous to us might actually have the most to teach us. This is part of the message at the heart of Charlie Jane Anders’s thought-provoking science fiction novel The City in the Middle of the Night, which came out in 2019. I don’t often review sci-fi on this blog, but when presented with a planet where half the world is eternally engulfed in darkest night and inhabited by giant tentacled monsters, I can’t deny how much science fiction often overlaps with horror. This novel in particular plays with how one situation can be experienced as horror by one person, but as something completely different from another perspective. Continue reading Review of The City in the Middle of the Night