Publisher's Synopsis
Note From the Publisher:
Tormented Flesh is less an anthology than an infestation, a collection of voices that should have been silenced but weren't. These are the testimonies of those who have seen beyond the veil of ordinary existence and returned with nothing but horror. It is a book that should not be read so much as succumbed to.
James Nulick has assembled something truly malign here-not a selection of stories, but a series of transmissions from a world where the flesh is not a vessel, but a prison. The writers in this collection understand that to exist is to suffer, that the body is a mistake, and that every moment of consciousness is an exercise in slow erosion. Their words will take root in you, spreading like a sickness.
Naturally, this book was passed over by those who still believe in meaning, those who think horror should resolve into something digestible, something polite. But Tormented Flesh is not interested in catharsis. It does not offer escape, only deeper entrapment. It lingers. It waits.
This is not a book to be enjoyed. It is a book to be endured, to be lived with, until it alters you in ways you cannot articulate. Open it, and you will not come away unchanged. Anxiety Press does not deal in comfort-we deal in inevitabilities.
Cody Sexton
Anxiety Press
Featured Authors/Stories:
Francesca Lia Block - FlayedDanielle Chelosky - ABC
Matías Bragagnolo - Your Body as an Assembly Line for Public Humiliations
Matthew Kinlin - Rhinoplasty
djp - The Triple Bind
George Salis - Abiogenesis
David Simmons - Gigi's Hands
Joshua Chaplinsky - The Toxicity of Our City
Bruno George - Wara Wara
Dave Fitzgerald - Squirrelbait
Mr. Omar King - Paul the (Optimistically Sadistic) Hound
Paul Curran - Rats in Paradise
Grant Wamack - My Gut's Talking Crazy
Forrest Muelrath - Into the Mineral Kingdom
Justin K. Louie - Little Dreamer
David Kuhnlein - Return to Feeling
Belen Palacios - Fixture
Blake Butler - Shooter