Indignities of the Flesh
Bentley Little has forged a name for himself as one of the most startlingly original authors in contemporary horror. His subversion of genre tropes and talent for creating surreal, Boschian-like nightmares from the mundane is without parallel.
Herein you'll meet: the mischievous “Rodeo Clown”, who may very well be evil incarnate, or perhaps little more than an innocent bystander in a ring of coincidence; a man obsessed with dental hygiene to the point of stalking, in “Brushing”; a cynic forced to tag along on an ill-advised trip to a faith healer in “Documented Miracles”; a demented birthday girl whose equally demented birthday wishes are about to come true, in “Happy Birthday, Dear Tama”; a family on the run from cartoonists in search of their god, in “Looney Tunes”; and a man who pays the ultimate price for circumventing a parking attendant in the never before published, “Valet Parking”.
Rounding out the collection are “The Black Ladies” and “The Piñata”, a pair of unsettling stories culled from childhood nightmares, the surprisingly poignant “Even the Dead”, which documents the last days of a tender partnership between two friends, only one of whom is still alive, and “Pray 4 Baby”, Little’s first published story, unavailable for nearly 30 years, the distinctly E.C. Comics-flavored cautionary tale about highway curiosity gone horribly wrong, published exclusively in the Signed, Limited Edition.
Indignities of the Flesh is a superlative gathering of the kind of twisted, darkly humorous, and mind-bending stories for which Bentley Little is best known.
Contents:
- Rodeo Clown
- Brushing
- Documented Miracles
- Happy Birthday, Dear Tama
- Gingerbread
- Looney Tunes
- The Black Ladies
- The Piñata
- Valet Parking
- Even the Dead
- Pray 4 Baby (Limited Edition Only)