A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers

Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' Bust. Joyce Carol Oates assembles a spectacular cast to explore | subvert and reinvent one of horror's most visceral of subgenres. Focusing on distortions of the human body | the fifteen short stories of A Darker Shade will delight | disgust and shock you.. From the metaphysical horror of a snail trapped in body of a young office worker | to a women cursed to dance endlessly | her body ravaged and torn | these are stories that confront the inextricable link between physical and mental terror.. Featuring brand-new stories by: Margaret Atwood | Raven Leilani | Lisa Tuttle | Tananarive Due | Joyce Carol Oates | Megan Abbott | Aimee Bender | Cassandra Khaw | Lisa Lim | Elizabeth Hand | Valerie Martin | Sheila Kohler | Joanna Margaret and Aimee LaBrie | and Yumi Dineen Shiroma.