This is the first collection of beautifully dark fiction from one of the most promising new writers in modern horror. This book features Bel's brilliant 'The Mannerly Man" from THE DARKER SIDE anthology edited by John Pelan as well as stories from numerous other anthologies and magazine appearances. Also contains many never before published pieces all illustrated by Erik Wilson and features and introduction from David J. Schow.
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"Caustic. classic, classy, nasty, elegant, relevant post-punk horror for people who give a sh•t." -- Chine Miéville, author of The Scar and Perdido Street Station
"Finally someone with balls enough to put the horrible back into horror fiction.'" -- C. Dennis Moore, ePinions
"…the best collection I've read in a long time…alongside Lee's Ushers and Hodge's Lies & Ugliness…" -- Brian Keene, author of The Rising
"Finally someone with balls enough to put the horrible back into horror fiction.'" -- C. Dennis Moore, ePinions
"…the best collection I've read in a long time…alongside Lee's Ushers and Hodge's Lies & Ugliness…" -- Brian Keene, author of The Rising
About the Author
Mehitobel Wilson has been publishing horror fiction since 1999. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, and many of her stories have been granted Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror series. If you can't pronounce her name, call her "Bel."
Bel's been a dog groomer, an industrial painter, a runway model, a belt worker in a factory, a cigarette girl at a movie theater, an audio/visual technician, a Latin tutor, and a waitress, among other things. She's lived in the backwoods and on the streets. Now she lives (in a house) in the Deep South, prefers Lone Star beer and Marlboros, and inflicts Hong Kong rap music on whomever comes in proximity. She'd write more fiction if her hands were less sore from bouts of Tekken 4.
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By Luciferal
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Wow. These stories are steeped in razorsharp arcana. Written with a sensibility to unnerve a host of fading femme fatales of the literary horror scene, I can honestly say that Mehitobel Wilson, as of this debut collection, vaults easily onto the world stage to accompany them. In most cases, her arrival should send shockwaves enough to knock a few of them offstage.
Pining for the days when Anne, Poppy, and Storm held your gaze in their death-grips? Your prayers have been answered. New nightmares await your brave nocturnal cravings. Look no further than this classy, and quite caustic, collection of cautionary tales.
What I really love about these stories is their post-cool writing style. Lines that whisper sweetly to you before garotting your neck, then pulling back to nearly sever your windpipe. That's the kind of attention they demand of the discriminating reader. Beautiful, scarred fables that are not for Mom's generation, I'm afraid. (Unless you have one helluva radical Mom, that is.)
I read all the stories in this collection in a heated combination of relish & revulsion, anticipation & trepidation. These are more than ordinary horror stories. They are poetry steeped in the vintage wine of your secret fears. May they give you ALL nightmares.
Pining for the days when Anne, Poppy, and Storm held your gaze in their death-grips? Your prayers have been answered. New nightmares await your brave nocturnal cravings. Look no further than this classy, and quite caustic, collection of cautionary tales.
What I really love about these stories is their post-cool writing style. Lines that whisper sweetly to you before garotting your neck, then pulling back to nearly sever your windpipe. That's the kind of attention they demand of the discriminating reader. Beautiful, scarred fables that are not for Mom's generation, I'm afraid. (Unless you have one helluva radical Mom, that is.)
I read all the stories in this collection in a heated combination of relish & revulsion, anticipation & trepidation. These are more than ordinary horror stories. They are poetry steeped in the vintage wine of your secret fears. May they give you ALL nightmares.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Nathan Rosen
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
Dangerous Red is a book of gruesome horror that doesn't shy away from explicit depravity, and it's one of the best collections I've ever read. Mehitobel Wilson has taken her place among names like Ketchum, Little and Lansdale as one of my favorite horror writers. Don't miss this.
