A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers

by Joyce Carol Oates

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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 of 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 body of a young office worker, to a women 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.

  • ISBN10 1804440949
  • ISBN13 9781804440940
  • Publish Date 18 January 2024
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Footnote Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Language English