Flesh Wounds

by Christopher Fowler

A collection of 14 short stories, that details the ways in which we contrive to treat each other cruelly. The subjects range from a business-man who awakes one morning to find everyone hates him, to a young woman who must surrender her virginity to an enemy in order to fulfil her family's destiny.

• ISBN10: 0751514314
• ISBN13: 9780751514315
• Publish Date: 7 December 1995
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 30 December 2009
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Imprint: Time Warner Paperbacks
• Format: Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
• Pages: 272
• 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.