Table of Contents I Have a Story for You • essay by Alex Hofelich Notes on the Writing of Horror: A Story • (1985) • novelette by Thomas Ligotti Murmurs of a Voice Foreknown • (2016) • short story by Jon Padgett Stillborn • (1990) • short story by Nina Kiriki Hoffman In the Deepest […]
via For Mortal Things Unsung—A Horror Anthology from Pseudopod, TOC — The Sanguine Woods
He gave the lives of dozens of others to keep her.
A school of mystics failed their test to keep her from him.
Nirvana was not enough for them. Several Hells could not hold them.
Now the world and the spirits are in their way.
As heard on Pseudopod.org…
“In THE FLESH SUTRA Tim W. Burke has charted a diabolical, metaphysical odyssey for his main characters, a journey that will take you through Death itself… and back out the other side.”
— Shawn Garrett, Pseudopod
Imagine that couple you know, those two most talented people in your life, and they are in love.
But they’re afraid. Frightened of death and of losing one another.
Jealous of anyone who may catch the other’s attention. Screaming fights. Dishware flung. Punches thrown.
Sometimes they are sorry about bringing other people into their drama. Other times they just want to forget and move on.
Now…imagine they could alter flesh with their touch.
They are sometimes very, very sorry about the drama.
As heard on Pseudopod.org…
“In THE FLESH SUTRA Tim W. Burke has charted a diabolical, metaphysical odyssey for his main characters, a journey that will take you through Death itself… and back out the other side.”
— Shawn Garrett, Pseudopod
Other Characters Are Doomed On A Haunted Ship,
Another Plummets From Fathomless Height,
One Becomes A Creature Who Eats His Mother’s Corpse,
Yet Another Bursts Apart Before A Rapt Audience,
Two Are Torn Apart Alive By A Monkey Demon,
One Is Frozen To Death In His Private Hell,
Another Is Drowned In An Illusionary Ocean,
And One Is Shot To Death By A Ghost.
This Is How They Die In “The Flesh Sutra”
As heard on Pseudopod.org…
“Seeds of body horror and jealousy, avarice and desperation all wrapped in fin de siecle city life and the trappings of the Spiritualist movement. This is a beautiful, precision time piece of unease and tension and Tim winds it all the way up, smiling at you as he does so.”
— Alasdair Stuart, Host of http://www.pseudopod.org, the weekly horror fiction podcast
