Book Description
In these appropriately thirteen stories, Mike ODriscoll plays with our imagination and expectations, subverting the horror genre whilst embracing its conventions. What results is a strangely brewed cocktail of terror: dark, dangerous, and sometimes downright dirty, ODriscolls stories get under your skin and into your head, where the freedom to prowl the peripheries of your consciousness becomes addictive. Uncompromising and unflinching, this is modern horror at its very best.
A man becomes obsessed by noise, another finds himself reduced to shadow, children are coveted by the perverse antithesis of loving parents, and artists stretch the limits of their capabilities. Acknowledging sensations that all is not right with the world, the characters twist and turn with each cut from lifes rusty knife: seeking redemption, finding none.
ODriscoll writes horror from the inside out.
"Identities in crisis, lives falling apart. Wherever Mike ODriscolls stories are set downtown LA, Soho medialand or the Gower Peninsula the light is fading to a dusky noir but his characters are still recognisable as people you know. Compassion as real as the horror: ODriscoll doesnt do inauthentic. The monster within is pissed off" Nicholas Royle, author of Antwerp (Serpents Tail)
"Mike ODriscoll writes mysterious, sometimes convoluted, utterly chilling stories. Ive been reading - and sometimes publishing - his work for many years and am delighted that its finally available in this fine collection" Ellen Datlow, Co-Editor of Year's Best Fantasy & Horror
Synopsis
"Unbecoming: and Other Tales of horror" contains short stories.
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