Videodrome. Scanners. The Brood. Crash. The Fly. The films of David Cronenberg have haunted and inspired generations. His name has become synonymous with the body horror subgenre and the term “Cronenbergian” has been used to describe the stark, grotesque, and elusive quality of his work. These eighteen stories bring his themes and ideas into the present, throbbing with unnatural life.
A yoga group brings transcendence and bodily transformation. A woman undergoing Gender Confirmation Surgery is subjected to outlandish techniques. A young man discovers the reality-warping potential of a bootleg horror VHS. A mother comes to terms with the monstrous appetites of her newborn child.
Being terrified is just the beginning.
Become one with us and take a deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool…
This is THE NEW FLESH.
With an Introduction by Kathe Koja
Featuring:
A Bad Patch — Brian Evenson
Red Lips in a Blue Light — Sara Century
Descrambler — C.M. Muller
Lackers — Leo X. Robertson
Hekati Yoga — Max D. Stanton
Convex — Emma Alice Johnson
Seminar — Cody Goodfellow
Emergence — Bruno Lombardi
Genital Freak — Katy Michelle Quinn
Elk: An Oral History of an Abandoned Film (1987) — Jack Lothian
The Taint is Saintly with Her Welcome — Mona Swan LeSueur & Fiona Maeve
Geist -
Typhoid Ananya — Madeleine Swann
A Future of Violence — Charles Austin Muir
Orificially Compromised — Ryan Harding
15. Limbs — Alex Smith
A New Mother’s Guide to Raising an Abomination — Gwendolyn Kiste
The Human Clay — Brendan Vidito
Reborn of Ash — Sam Richard
“Fetish technology. Pleasure technology. Sinister technology. Incomprehensible technology. Inhuman technology. Technology plus velocity, velocity plus death, death plus technology.” — From the Introduction by the legendary Kathe Koja, author of The Cipher, Skin, and Under the Poppy.