The Mammoth Book of Body Horror

Twenty-Five Stories of Transformation, Mutation and Contagion

Edited by Paul Kane & Marie O’Regan

Editors of the bestselling and British Fantasy Award-nominated Hellbound Hearts

A very special and unique anthology celebrating the sub-genre of ‘Body Horror’, tracing its origins right up to the most modern exponents of the form. Featuring a veritable ‘who’s who’ of horror literature, and including the stories those classic Body Horror movies – The Thing, The Fly and Re-Animator – were based on, this promises to be a groundbreaking and landmark release in the history of the genre. Full Table of Contents below:

TRANSFORMATION by Mary Shelley

THE TELL-TALE HEART by Edgar Allan Poe

HERBERT WEST: RE-ANIMATOR by H.P. Lovecraft

WHO GOES THERE? John W. Campbell

THE FLY by George Langelaan

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JELLY by Richard Matheson

SURVIVOR TYPE by Stephen King

THE BODY POLITIC by Clive Barker

THE CHANEY LEGACY by Robert Bloch

THE OTHER SIDE by Ramsey Campbell

FRUITING BODIES by Brian Lumley

FREAKTENT by Nancy A. Collins

REGION OF THE FLESH by Richard Christian Matheson

WALKING WOUNDED by Michael Marshall Smith

CHANGES by Neil Gaiman

OTHERS by James Herbert

THE LOOK by Christopher Fowler

RESIDUE by Alice Henderson

DOG DAYS by Graham Masterton

BLACK BOX by Gemma Files

THE SOARING DEAD by Simon Clark

POLYP by Barbie Wilde

ALMOST FOREVER by David Moody

BUTTERFLY by Axelle Carolyn

STICKY EYE by Conrad Williams

Introduction by Stuart Gordon (Director of Re-Animator and From Beyond)

Published 1 March 2012 in the UK

Published June 2012 in the US

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