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Teenage Grave 2
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Blending splatterpunk, body horror, and transgressive fiction, Teenage Grave 2 immerses readers in a world of unrelenting terror. This masterful work of macabre fiction assaults the senses and challenges perceptions of safety, leaving readers deeply unsettled. Featuring Sam Richard, Justin Lutz, Brendan Vidito and Jo Quenell.
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“"The flesh was unreal, incongruent with his memory of how the shell had burst his head apart in a hail of bone and shredded meat. He traced a line down the middle of his brow, along one side of his nose, and under the curve of both cheekbones, where he remembered - or thought he remembered - the skin splitting and blooming outward like some grotesque flower opening its petals."
Comprised of four very short, but, extremely vivid and upsetting stories, Teenage Grave 2 is a freakish, and all too intense modern horror anthology. It's exceptionally inventive, a total imaginative rollercoaster, a complete and utter plunge into the depths of the most visceral and experimental of horror. Grief, guilt and desolation burden this entire novella, the pages practically shudder with the severity of sorrow strewn throughout this book. For something so small, it's brutally impactful, wonderfully shocking and so gorgeously affecting. Teenage Grave 2 is a painful and anxiety inducing experience - it's genuinely a rather stressful read, designed to actively push readers off the ledges they were clinging to.
Savage enough to steal the breath from your lungs, and poetic enough to make you weep, the stories contained within this collection are nothing short of otherworldly. This is a damn haunting and iconic way to explore new-age horror. Seemingly plucked from the murky abyss that is Hell, these are the stories designed to obliterate and ruin us all, they're stories penned for the forsaken and lost. Stark and gruesome horrors lurk between the pages of this little novella, it's packed to the brim with this thick, cloying dread that just consumes everything. So exhausting and so damn beautiful, this is modern horror at its absolute finest. Teenage Grave 2 is a novella with razor sharp teeth and poisoned drool, it's an apocalypse that the world isn't yet ready to face.
"Wires pulling at you from below. The corpse of a fox in a darkened alley, decaying fluids running out its mouth, into a sewer grate. A soft hand on your thigh; maybe too close, but also comfortable and reassuring. Veins on concrete, shuddering at your touch. An up-close mouth, slurping raw meat off bones. Being surrounded by cold flesh. Then, darkness."
This is not a sequel to the last Teenage Grave, none of the stories here actually connect to the stories in the first collection. Yet, in a way, it's a continuation, no? Because these stories, just like the previous, force readers to contend with the bleakest corners of the mind, they insist that we find our fear and face it head on. These may be very, very short stories, they may, perhaps even be over far too quick, but they're so god-damn brilliant, so fucking fantastic and horrific and terrifying that, it's impossible not to adore this little collection. As is always, and will forever be the case with any collection, there's a singular story that towers above the rest, the shining star of the entire thing, for me, this story was Misbegotten.
"Her self-exposure, somehow more intimate than seems normal. Not just seeing her body, not just seeing those parts generally kept between lovers, but seeming to bare an essential portion of herself in the act. In this act. Whatever it actually is."”
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