A man's gnawing sense that he is gaining a phantom beak presages an awful metamorphosis. Those who scorn the warnings about hare-folk in the countryside pay for their scepticism with blood. A girl's mockery of an ancient festival brings about a cruel transfiguration.
For millennia, tales of strange transformations have grappled with a terrifying question: what if our flesh and form were unfixed and liable to deceive us? Tracing this thread through the annals of horror fiction, Mark Morris has assembled thirteen metamorphic tales featuring shapeshifting beasts, sly flatworms, insectoid hybrids and altered humans. Including classics by Roald Dahl, Joan Aiken, Mary Shelley and Charles Beaumont, this volume invites you to bask in the dark comedy, seething horror and weird beauty of the new flesh.
Size: 188 x 130 x 26 (mm)
Pages: 288
Publisher: British Library
