The Mammoth Book of Body Horror
by:
Paul Kane (author)
Marie O'Regan (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781780330440 (1780330448)
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Robinson
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
It's got Clive Barker's "The Body Politic" -my favourite story from many years ago, which I didn't own a copy of until now. Plus there's James Herbert & David Moody. And it was on sale.How could I NOT buy it?
I had high hopes for this book, but there were a number of serious things wrong with it. The first 163 pages are encumbered by so-called "classic" body horror. Everyone who buys and reads this book has already read "The Fly," "Who Goes There?", "The Tell-Tale Heart" (body horror?), "Herbert West,"...