body horror Archives - Tor Nightfire

body horror Archives - Tor Nightfire

Your Body is a Haunted House: Hiron Ennes on the Discomfiting Tradition of Medical Horror - 631

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Your Body is a Haunted House: Hiron Ennes on the Discomfiting Tradition of Medical Horror

Posted on September 28, 2022 (January 4, 2024) by Hiron Ennes

Leech author Hiron Ennes writes about the terrifying history of medicine and the peculiarly intimate horror of having a mortal body. […]

September 28, 2022 Books

Yaya Betancourt Dreams of Teeth (or, How to Kill a Toothy Darling) - 142

Yaya Betancourt Dreams of Teeth (or, How to Kill a Toothy Darling)

Posted on May 18, 2022 (January 3, 2024) by Hailey Piper

Fresh off her Stoker Award win for Best First Novel, Hailey Piper shares an exclusive scene that was cut from Queen of Teeth. […]

May 18, 2022 Books

Ellen Datlow's Body Shocks Will Make You Uncomfortable in Your Own Skin - 271

Ellen Datlow’s Body Shocks Will Make You Uncomfortable in Your Own Skin

Posted on October 19, 2021 (January 4, 2024) by Sadie Hartmann

Body Shocks, edited by Ellen Datlow, contains 29 skin-crawling tales of body horror from Carmen Maria Machado, Brian Evenson, Alyssa Wong, and many more. […]

October 19, 2021 Books

Broken Windows to the Soul: 5 Books Featuring Eye Horror - 417

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Broken Windows to the Soul: 5 Books Featuring Eye Horror

Posted on September 7, 2021 (January 4, 2024) by Eric LaRocca

Eric LaRocca’s most recent novella asked the question “What have you done today to deserve your eyes?” Now he rounds up five horror books about all the horrible things that can happen to your delicate eyeballs. […]

September 7, 2021 Books

The Scariest Thing About False Positive is How Wrong It Gets Infertility - 95

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The Scariest Thing About False Positive is How Wrong It Gets Infertility

Posted on August 17, 2021 (January 5, 2024) by Natalie Zutter

False Positive gets the horrors of infertility wrong at every turn and proves to be a disappointing heir to Rosemary’s Baby. […]

August 17, 2021 On Screen

Fried Barry is a Psychedelic Horror-Comedy Alien Sojourn Through Cape Town - 457

Fried Barry is a Psychedelic Horror-Comedy Alien Sojourn Through Cape Town

Posted on June 16, 2021 (January 5, 2024) by Sam Reader

Fried Barry is a bizarre, fun, weirdly optimistic tour of Cape Town’s underworld through the eyes of an interstellar visitor. […]

June 16, 2021 On Screen

Our Bodies, Our Scares: 7 Intimate Works of Body Horror - 354

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Our Bodies, Our Scares: 7 Intimate Works of Body Horror

Posted on February 10, 2020 (January 5, 2024) by Sam Reader

There’s no horror more inescapable or universal than body horror – here are seven of our favorite body horror stories and novels. […]

February 10, 2020 Books