Flesh Wounds
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.
Contents:
- Introduction: 'You've Got To Love Something Enough to Kill It'
- Laundry Imp
- Hated
- Night After Night of the Living Dead
- Tales of Britannica Castle: I. Ginansia's Punishment
- Perfect Casting
- Tales of Britannica Castle: II. Leperdandy's Revenge
- Most Boring Woman in the World
- Unreliable History of Plaster City
- The Young Executives
- Jouissance de la Mort
- Evil Eye
- Brian Foot's Blaze of Glory
- Mother of the City
- Century and a Second
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Christopher Fowler
Christopher Fowler is the award-winning author of over thirty novels and twelve short story collections, and the Bryant & May mystery novels, which record the adventures of two Golden Age detectives investigating impossible London crimes. His latest books are the sinister comedy-thriller Plastic, the memoir Film Freak and the haunted-house novel Nyctophobia. Other work includes the War of the Worlds videogame, a graphic novel and a Hammer horror radio play. He has a weekly column in The Independent On Sunday. He spends his time between London and Barcelona.
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