Table
of Contents Reviews "From Gord
Rollo's transcendentally eerie tale of a comatose young boy's
revenge ("Lost in a Field of Paper Flowers") to Mark Morris's
cautionary tale about a pair of unorthodox vampires ("Puppies
for Sale"), the 21 original stories in this anthology establish
the strength of British horror writers. Contributors include
Ramsey Campbell, Sarah Pinborough, Conrad Williams, Peter Crowther,
and other veterans and new authors. A strong collection of contemporary
horror from across the pond..." "The British
may not have invented the modern horror story, as the editors
of this all-original anthology claim, but the 21 stories they've
selected prove that contemporary U.K. writers are infiltrating
American publishing markets with some of the most provocative
horror fiction written today. Refreshingly devoid of genre clichés,
these subtle tales offer ambiguously supernatural horrors from
the dramas and traumas of everyday life. Nicholas Royle, in
The Goldfinch, gives chronic illness an unsettling spin by objectifying
a man's cancer as a relentless shadowy stalker. Mark Morris's
Puppies for Sale presents a nuclear family's gradual implosion
as a consequence of a malignant supernatural influence that
may be a complete figment of the distraught father's mind. In
Conrad Williams's Slitten Gorge, the disconnect between the
unpolluted natural world and the protagonist's industrially
despoiled environment achieves an aura of otherworldly horror.
The book's title notwithstanding, there's nothing peculiarly
British about these stories, but their authors are exceptionally
articulate in the universal language of horror." Additional
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