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Stories of the Eye

By Sam Richard & Joe Koch
Stories of the Eye by Sam Richard & Joe Koch digital book - Fable

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Beauty is a knife. 

Between the desire to create and the thing created, the model is a key, a stepping stone, a participant othered through the process of creation. These thirteen visions of modern horror dissect the relationship between artist and model, exposing the spaces the eye is tricked into missing where we witness the beautiful and monstrous intricacies of making and being made. 

Featuring stories by Andrew Wilmot, M. Lopes da Silva, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hailey Piper, Roland Blackburn, Ira Rat, Donyae Coles, Matt Neil Hill, Brendan Vidito, LC von Hessen, Gary J. Shipley, and editors Joe Koch and Sam Richard.

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3.5
“Weirdpunk Books takes a risk naming an anthology after https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20842.Georges_Bataille ’s <strong> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58383.Story_of_the_Eye </strong>, one of the most enigmatic and disturbing books ever written. Fortunately, the collection delivers, and while not as transgressive as Bataille, it certainly feels at home with his interests such as surrealism, eroticism, and sacrificial rites. The book has an excellent theme, how perception and being perceived transform the relationship between the artist and the model. <strong>Stories of the Eye</strong> reminded me of the excitement I felt picking up the first <strong>Borderlands</strong> anthology of bizarre horror fiction decades ago. The collection lives in the same ferment of weird, transgressive fiction reminiscent of https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8125999.Kathe_Koja ’s <strong> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341930.The_Cipher </strong> and the <strong> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761023.Books_of_Blood_Volume_One__Books_of_Blood___1_ </strong> by https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/10366.Clive_Barker , while bringing that spirit forward for the adventurous contemporary reader. You can read https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2922000.Stephen_McClurg 's full review at Horror DNA by https://www.horrordna.com/books/stories-of-the-eye-sam-richard-joe-koch-book-review .”

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