# Body Shocks

**Author(s):** Carmen Maria Machado, Angela Slatter, Tom Johnstone, Richard Christian Matheson, Lucy Taylor, Nathan Ballingrud, Cody Goodfellow, Pat Cadigan, Priya Sharma, Lisa L Hannett, Alyssa Wong, Genevieve Valentine, Brian Evenson, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Tananarive Due, Richard Kadrey, Cassandra Khaw, Ray Cluley, Ellen Datlow, Kirstyn McDermott, Seanan McGuire, Gemma Files, Michael Blumlein, Kaaron Warren, Christopher Fowler, Livia Llewellyn, Edward Bryant, Terry Dowling, Simon Bestwick, Kij Johnson
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**Genres:** body-horror
**Pages:** 384
**Publisher:** Tachyon Publications
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9781616963613
**ISBN-10:** 1616963603
**ASIN:** B08XYC42BN
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Genre Fiction > Horror > Collections & Anthologies
**Amazon binding:** $9.99
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/body-shocks

## Description

**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.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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