NEXT ON: Thursday 22 June
June book: THIS IS MY BODY, GIVEN FOR YOU by Heather Parry
‘In This is My Body, Given for You, Parry has created a clawed offering that plunges deep down to plumb the bones and viscera to find revelation there. Precise and beguiling, the stories in this collection will thrill and sicken; test, stretch, shift boundaries and reveal anew the divine in the puddling, stinking, expansive human flesh.’
– Helen McClory
CONTENT WARNING: This book explores heavy themes related to the body, including sexual violence.
A girl suffering a bizarre menstrual aberration is exploited by those around her. A boy expresses his love for a nonhuman man by making himself animalistic. A girl discovers the possibility of transmutation through cannibalism. A man struggles with his wife’s choices around her existence, and considers whether he should leave her alone in her semi-oblivion, or join her.
These fifteen stories present the body as something that can be changed, altered, and escaped from. With dripping blood, bruised tentacles, and seamed skin, Heather Parry’s debut short story collection will consume you.
‘A remarkable collection that shines a harsh light on the dark underbelly of humans and humanity, with an occasional flash of slyly absurd humour. Shocking, visceral, intimate and honest, and genuinely disturbing and outrageous in its horrific detail. There’s a dark mind at work here.’
– Lucie McKnight Hardy
Heather Parry was born in Rotherham and lives in Glasgow. She has won the Bridge Award for an Emerging Writer, Cove Park's Emerging Writer Residency and the Laxfield Literary Launch Prize. In 2021 she was a Hawthornden Fellow and her first novel, Orpheus Builds a Girl, was released in 2022.
Haunt Publishing is a local independent publisher of Gothic, horror and dark fiction. Dedicated to exploring both traditional and contemporary Gothic and horror literature, Haunt holds a flickering candle to global and underrepresented voices. Books that provoke unease, terror and dread. Basically, books that haunt readers long after consuming them.
The book is for sale in-store and via our online shop here
DETAILS:
Date: Thursday 22 June
Time: 6:30pm
Address: Blunt Knife Co., 41 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
Registration: via Eventbrite here
Any questions: email holler@bluntknife.co