OF THE FLESH

Fear never dies These stories from eighteen masters of the craft will curdle your blood haunt your dreams and redefine terror An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally but at what cost A young woman s workplace affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover s wife dies A sailor s wife takes her communion with Nature a little too far From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems to a boy who has taken his mother s advice a touch too seriously from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor from a new home with a sinister secret to the discovery that a long dead parent s corpse is perfectly preserved decades later this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors Featuring stories by Susan Barker J K Chukwu Bridget Collins Mariana Enríquez Michel Faber Lewis Hancox Emilia Hart Ainslie Hogarth Robert Lautner Adorah Nworah Irenosen Okojie Lucy Rose Lionel Shriver James Smythe Lavie Tidhar Francine Toon Evie Wyld and Louisa Young