Flesh Wounds: Short Stories

by Christopher Fowler

A popular businessman awakes one morning to discover that everyone hates him. A young woman must surrender her virginity to a grotesque enemy in order to fulfil her family's destiny. An extraordinary chain of events is set in motion when a cocktail cabinet falls out of the sky and kills a farmer. A depressed man decides to make his suicide the most exciting thing that's ever happened to him...

Oozing paranoia, black humour and a certain amount of old-fashioned gore, this is a collection of classic Christopher Fowler short stories - each telling a chilling tale of desperate individuals who learn the hard way that ...flesh wounds.

• ISBN10: 1473540100
• ISBN13: 9781473540101
• Publish Date: 28 October 2016 (first published 7 December 1995)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
• Imprint: Transworld Digital
• Edition: Digital original
• Format: eBook (EPUB)
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cameron Trost]

Flesh Wounds is (yet another) chilling and unsettling collection of short stories from one of the best horror writers of our time. Christopher Fowler's tales are of urban and suburban life gone wrong, and he has a way of making our everyday routine part of the terror his work inspires. All of the tales in this collection are good, but a few are absolutely outstanding pieces of short fiction. Hated, The Most Boring Woman in the World, The Young Executives, and Brian Foot's Blaze of Glory will leave you thinking about how we have allowed society to bring us to this absurd present. They are confronting and powerful indictments on modernity, in the tradition of one of Fowler's favourite writers, J.G. Ballard.