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A Darker Shade
New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers
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Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams Bust Joyce Carol Oates assembles a spectacular cast to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of horror's most visceral subgenres. Focusing on distortions of the human body, the fifteen short stories of A Darker Shade...
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Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors - including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw - to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror
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Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams Bust
Joyce Carol Oates assembles a spectacular cast to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of horror's most visceral subgenres. Focusing on distortions of the human body, the fifteen short stories of A Darker Shade will delight, disgust, and shock you.
From the metaphysical horror of a snail trapped in the body of a young office worker to a woman cursed to dance endlessly, her body ravaged and torn, these are stories that confront the inextricable link between physical and mental terror.
Featuring brand-new stories by:
Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, Lisa Tuttle, Tananarive Due, Joyce Carol Oates, Megan Abbott, Aimee Bender, Cassandra Khaw, Lisa Lim, Elizabeth Hand, Valerie Martin, Sheila Kohler, Joanna Margaret and Aimee LaBrie, and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.
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ISBN: 9781804440940
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 January 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Footnote Press Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 196g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Joyce Carol Oates is the author of a number of works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including A Garden of Earthly Delights and Blonde; and is a recipient of the National Book Award, the PEN America Lifetime Achievement Award, the National Humanities Medal and a World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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