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Kissing Carrion parent’s guide: what’s inside
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A note for parents
This is an adult horror short story collection featuring graphic and disturbing content throughout. The metadata explicitly references necrophilia, death, and dark themes, positioning it alongside established extreme horror writers like Clive Barker and Poppy Z. Brite. While well-regarded within the horror genre, the collection is fundamentally unsuitable for young readers and designed for mature audiences comfortable with visceral, transgressive horror.
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From the publisher
The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, " one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today" (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts). These seventeen tales take readers into the uniquely twisted mind of "one of Canada's most promising new horror wri... The first horror story collection from the author of Experimental Film, " one of the most powerful and unique voices in weird fiction today" (Paul Tremblay, award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts). These seventeen tales take readers into the uniquely twisted mind of "one of Canada's most promising new horror writers" ( Publishers Weekly). From a live necrophilia show starring reanimated corpses to a confrontation between a security guard and inhuman squatters, from who can be found at an all-night laundromat to what lies in wait at the bottom of the sea, from undead addictions to all-consuming obsessions, Kissing Carrion is "a journey through some of the most beautifully rendered visions of darkness and death to be published this past year. . . . Fans of Poppy Z. Brite, Charlee Jacob, and Clive Barker should enjoy this collection immensely" ( SF Reader). Praise for Gemma Files "One of the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has already established herself as one of the genre's most original and innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement." — Los Angeles Review of Books "[ We Will All Go Down Together] is a vivid, haunting mix of horror and fantasy woven together through a complex fugue of short stories. The effect is powerful. It's a book you have to work hard at, in order to make sure you're not missing any of the peripheral connections. But it rewards the effort, and then some." — Entertainment Weekly "The recent republication of Gemma Files's first two collections of short fiction, Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart, was a reminder of how long and how well she has been writing." — Locus
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- Fiction
- Fiction, horror
- Fiction, fantasy, dark fantasy
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
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ISBN 9781504063685 · Open Road Media