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Inside Out
INSIDE OUT
is an over-the-top tribute to the goopy, grimy and gross horror of the 1980s. After a mysterious infection spreads through the world, people and animals start melting into horrific monsters. This wild debut novella follows everyday people dealing with the new chaotic reality, from school children to scummy landlords to mad scientists. Featuring illustrations from horror artists such as Enuch Duncan, Matt Pierce, and SJ Miller, with cover art by Eduardo Vald�s-Hevia.
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110 pages, Paperback
First published October 10, 2022
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March 6, 2024
3.5 stars. I think my favorite part of this experience was the enthusiasm that Lor Gislason brought to it. You can tell that the author really had fun developing this story and it showed. And the illustrations were enjoyable, too. Now there was a basic plot here, involving chemicals being dumped and people having adverse reactions when exposed. And that was the point here was to replicate 80s horror, which I am a huge fan of. And the general concept was accomplished. There weren't really any main characters, but most of the story was just very short stories of various people's experiences, from the scientists to the citizens, as the chaos and creature-based anarchy settled in. So, for any fans of the original Resident Evil games, when you discovered the notes left that told side stories in the RPD building and beyond, it had that sort of feel to it, just on a slightly bigger scale. I appreciated the unique style that this took, but do wish that there was some additional development on certain creatures, which came about, but never fully got their time to shine. I also desperately wanted some additional semblance of a main character that would've kept the plot more focused. But, overall, I had a good time here and look forward to seeing Lor Gislason's offerings.
October 25, 2022
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Inside Out by Lor Gislason
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Reports of a mining incident has been received through a radio transmission under extreme duress. A request for medical assistance from the twelve man digging crew arrives with a complete security team. As the relief arrives, the site itself is found in total disarray and coated in blood and human tissue. Further insight of the investigation reveals not only a sole survivor, but an unusual red type of moss found within the caves. The unusual organism seems to be alive and hungry for its own need of survival.
In the tradition of The Blob and The Thing, author Lor Gislason has created a terrifying fictional transformation of flesh and goo. Enveloping a nostalgic 80’s vibe, Inside Out is built on a found footage type context told through interviews, VHS recordings and creative segments of written transcripts. Using visceral images painted with pink flesh and brown meat, Lor surrounds her creation with a style of writing that adds a cringe worthy nastiness to its less than human plot.
Not only did Gislason flawlessly interpret horrific visuals, she distorts all five senses beyond recognition with graphic depictions of degeneration. The mastery of mucus she uses during each individual’s secluded segment reveals a grossly compelling struggle within. These segments crescendo into one horrific yellow milky discharge of writhing flesh. Lor Gislason wears her well written Bile Badge with pride and honor.
The future of humanity lies genetically among Clusters, Outers and Blobs. Dust off that old Hazmat gear you used during the pandemic, you’re gonna need it for these leaky pages of gooey substance. Inside Out by Lor Gislason is one small step for Splatterpunk and one giant step for Body Horror. This is a five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation that you should own today.
Inside Out by Lor Gislason
https://horrorbookwormreviews.com/
Reports of a mining incident has been received through a radio transmission under extreme duress. A request for medical assistance from the twelve man digging crew arrives with a complete security team. As the relief arrives, the site itself is found in total disarray and coated in blood and human tissue. Further insight of the investigation reveals not only a sole survivor, but an unusual red type of moss found within the caves. The unusual organism seems to be alive and hungry for its own need of survival.
In the tradition of The Blob and The Thing, author Lor Gislason has created a terrifying fictional transformation of flesh and goo. Enveloping a nostalgic 80’s vibe, Inside Out is built on a found footage type context told through interviews, VHS recordings and creative segments of written transcripts. Using visceral images painted with pink flesh and brown meat, Lor surrounds her creation with a style of writing that adds a cringe worthy nastiness to its less than human plot.
Not only did Gislason flawlessly interpret horrific visuals, she distorts all five senses beyond recognition with graphic depictions of degeneration. The mastery of mucus she uses during each individual’s secluded segment reveals a grossly compelling struggle within. These segments crescendo into one horrific yellow milky discharge of writhing flesh. Lor Gislason wears her well written Bile Badge with pride and honor.
The future of humanity lies genetically among Clusters, Outers and Blobs. Dust off that old Hazmat gear you used during the pandemic, you’re gonna need it for these leaky pages of gooey substance. Inside Out by Lor Gislason is one small step for Splatterpunk and one giant step for Body Horror. This is a five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation that you should own today.
March 23, 2023
Gross! Gross! Gross! Bleegghhhh!!!!
I loved it!
When I'm on a hunt for body horror, sentences with trigger words that make me want to gag/vomit, prose that imprint upsetting images on your brain for a lifetime, THIS is what I'm looking for.
Inspired by the vibrant, gory, pulpy, bloody horror flicks of the 80's, Gislason delivers a graphic, multi-perspective, apocalyptic story of a contagion that causes human flesh to melt, merge, and mutate--imagine The Blob (1988) meets The Thing (1982) meets The Stuff (1985). Each chapter is it's own stomach-churning short story with different characters witnessing or falling victim to "The Pile" of eyes, limbs, blood, and flesh that is gradually overwhelming the world.
This novella was an all around fun time and easy one-sitting read, as well as a fantastic personal introduction to author Lor Gislason's writing. I will definitely be reading more of their work--especially if it's as wonderfully repulsive as this!
(special thanks to DarkLit Press and author Lor Gislason for this gifted copy!)
I loved it!
When I'm on a hunt for body horror, sentences with trigger words that make me want to gag/vomit, prose that imprint upsetting images on your brain for a lifetime, THIS is what I'm looking for.
Inspired by the vibrant, gory, pulpy, bloody horror flicks of the 80's, Gislason delivers a graphic, multi-perspective, apocalyptic story of a contagion that causes human flesh to melt, merge, and mutate--imagine The Blob (1988) meets The Thing (1982) meets The Stuff (1985). Each chapter is it's own stomach-churning short story with different characters witnessing or falling victim to "The Pile" of eyes, limbs, blood, and flesh that is gradually overwhelming the world.
This novella was an all around fun time and easy one-sitting read, as well as a fantastic personal introduction to author Lor Gislason's writing. I will definitely be reading more of their work--especially if it's as wonderfully repulsive as this!
(special thanks to DarkLit Press and author Lor Gislason for this gifted copy!)
February 1, 2023
This was a fun, quick read. Lor is a very talented writer who is just getting started, and what a way to do just that! Inside Out is told in segments and follows different characters in each one, all dealing with the same threat at different stages. This is a unique approach to the apocalypse style story, and one I want to see expanded! I’d love to see a novel or novella in this universe that follows a set cast of characters instead of jumping around. This book has some genuine creepy moments, action, humor, and leaves me wanting more. Bring on more goopy horror Lor!
October 22, 2022
I got full body shivers at multiple points reading this. Lor does body horror well in Inside Out, shocking the reader over and over in just 85 pages. Not for the squeamish or sensitive.
The parallels between Inside Out and what the world has been experiencing as a whole since 2020 made this read even more eerie and uncomfortable. Great for a one sitting sprint!
The parallels between Inside Out and what the world has been experiencing as a whole since 2020 made this read even more eerie and uncomfortable. Great for a one sitting sprint!
October 18, 2022
Since the Science Fiction and Horror B-films of the 1950's, Evolution Horror has held a firm fascination. Whether human, Animal, or Plant Kingdoms, the infinite directions in which Life can mutate--shift--transform--EVOLVE are myriad and sometimes unimaginable, but always, always creative.
Life Goes On; and the means is not always by "natural propagation of the species. Life Is Unstoppable.
INSIDE OUT is a tremendously satisfying and thought-provoking read. Drenchingly gory, Horrifying from Page one, the lessons here are:
Nature retaliates, and
Life is going to continue
NO MATTER WHAT!
Please heed cautionary list of items that may be potentially triggering.
Life Goes On; and the means is not always by "natural propagation of the species. Life Is Unstoppable.
INSIDE OUT is a tremendously satisfying and thought-provoking read. Drenchingly gory, Horrifying from Page one, the lessons here are:
Nature retaliates, and
Life is going to continue
NO MATTER WHAT!
Please heed cautionary list of items that may be potentially triggering.
August 23, 2022
80s gore vibes and wonderfully grotesque sequences galore ... I've read this one several times and I'm still not tired of it. Goop fans rejoice!
(I can't wait to see the final copy with it's array of artwork I have not yet seen)
(I can't wait to see the final copy with it's array of artwork I have not yet seen)
April 18, 2023
told in multiple interlocking short stories Inside Out paints a portrait of how humanity might react to a virus that causes the infected to mutate into monstruous forms. It comes across as bleakly plausible but I would have liked more from the body horror aspect of it (don't get me wrong there is quite a bit of body horror I just find Gislason could have leaned into it a little more to make it more effective). Overall it was still a very enjoyable read.
June 18, 2025
short and icky, what a treat !
July 7, 2023
This was my first read by Lor and certainly won’t be my last. I’ve never read anything quite like this! With a personal preference for extreme and disturbing content this is definitely that! It reads partially as classified government documents and partially as short stories that all cover this “event”.
I really enjoyed the prose and honestly wish there was more. The short story at the end was 10/10!! It made me verbally gasp and physically shudder. If you’re in for a fast paced, disturbing read that’s beautifully written then definitely pick this up!
I really enjoyed the prose and honestly wish there was more. The short story at the end was 10/10!! It made me verbally gasp and physically shudder. If you’re in for a fast paced, disturbing read that’s beautifully written then definitely pick this up!
March 31, 2023
I remember watching the blob as a pre-teen. The black and white version and then the remake. Loved both of them. This Novella reminds me of both of these movies.
Great story. The only complaint I have that it is written in so many POV. Can be quite overwhelming. Usually I don’t mind that but here it was a bit much. Otherwise an amazing story about a new form of pandemic that literally turns people inside-out and then there is the PILE.
Also, there is a second very short story at the end of the book named: Toothworms! Excellent nasty little story!
Great story. The only complaint I have that it is written in so many POV. Can be quite overwhelming. Usually I don’t mind that but here it was a bit much. Otherwise an amazing story about a new form of pandemic that literally turns people inside-out and then there is the PILE.
Also, there is a second very short story at the end of the book named: Toothworms! Excellent nasty little story!
November 7, 2022
This was an amazing story, Lor Gislason has just gained a new fan. I already want more! Most novellas go quick & my attention span (or lack-thereof) is grateful. Not with this story, I found myself pausing so I could savor every revolting part of it. (After I recovered from the bit before it.) I truly hope this budding talent keeps delivering more blood and gore to us. Looking forward to the nightmares from this. 🫠
July 9, 2023
If you look at the cover and expect it to not be about a goopy creature... why? This is exactly what I expected and it was such a fun book. I loved how each chapter was handled and think it is one of my favorite reads this year.
May 17, 2025
Six out of five burst pustules!! This was a quickread vignette style novella in a world very much like ours---except the dumbshit of our timeline has been replaced by a team of researchers who discover a mysterious underground rust-ish moss/growth/substance, that seems to have radical anti-aging effects. So what if it smells a lil like rotten bodies....? Cue the mayhem that ensues once it becomes unleashed in the world and stars to melt people into a mindless (or is it?) pile of flesh that seeks to combine all of humanity into its stinking, wet folds.
Something enjoyable about this book is the obvious enjoyment the author has while fleshing out heh heh this world--it's pretty contagious and I had genuine fun watching the clusterfuck unfold, from the perspective of an unscrupulous scientist, a scummy landlord, a hapless virgin, a zealot who WISHES to be consumed, and in his last moments, finds it is horrifying--a young girl who watches her parents get consumed and is initially horrified, then finds an unlikely serenity when she joins them. Gislason manages to highlight a strange and interesting perspective by teasing out some of these angles, and giving what could just be gloopy schlock, some cool depth.
Lots of fun, and plenty of passages so gross, that I had to skim them a tiny bit to not get totally freaked out.
Something enjoyable about this book is the obvious enjoyment the author has while fleshing out heh heh this world--it's pretty contagious and I had genuine fun watching the clusterfuck unfold, from the perspective of an unscrupulous scientist, a scummy landlord, a hapless virgin, a zealot who WISHES to be consumed, and in his last moments, finds it is horrifying--a young girl who watches her parents get consumed and is initially horrified, then finds an unlikely serenity when she joins them. Gislason manages to highlight a strange and interesting perspective by teasing out some of these angles, and giving what could just be gloopy schlock, some cool depth.
Lots of fun, and plenty of passages so gross, that I had to skim them a tiny bit to not get totally freaked out.
November 28, 2023
Content Warnings
Body Horror
Viral Infections, Pandemics
Cannibalism
Animal Dissection
Child Death, Parent Death
Vomit
Mentions of Animal, Spousal, Child, and Elder Abuse
Marijuana Mention
Masturbation and Fellatio
Self-Harm/Skin Picking
Transphobia
Gun Violence
Human Liquification
Rotting Food/Eating Rotting Food
Alcohol
Surgery Mention
Scientific Experimentation/Torture
Human Sacrifice
Religion
Cancer
Natural Disasters
Implied Suicide
Body Horror
Viral Infections, Pandemics
Cannibalism
Animal Dissection
Child Death, Parent Death
Vomit
Mentions of Animal, Spousal, Child, and Elder Abuse
Marijuana Mention
Masturbation and Fellatio
Self-Harm/Skin Picking
Transphobia
Gun Violence
Human Liquification
Rotting Food/Eating Rotting Food
Alcohol
Surgery Mention
Scientific Experimentation/Torture
Human Sacrifice
Religion
Cancer
Natural Disasters
Implied Suicide
February 10, 2023
An infection is sweeping the globe and turning people into grotesque twisted sacks of animated meat. This novella is a collection of stories that explore the experiences of different people throughout this plague of monstrous proportions.
Body Horror ☑️
Thought provoking ideas ☑️
Content Warnings ☑️☑️
This book packed a punch in a way I didn’t expect, in its humanity. Showing how different people handle such things was fascinating.
Segment 15 The Non-Believer was my personal favorite and had an explanation of the creation of all things that blew my mind, just fantastic writing that I can’t stop thinking about.
While body horror isn’t my favorite I found this a uniquely, enjoyable read.
4 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Huge thanks to @darklitpress for this copy for review.
Body Horror ☑️
Thought provoking ideas ☑️
Content Warnings ☑️☑️
This book packed a punch in a way I didn’t expect, in its humanity. Showing how different people handle such things was fascinating.
Segment 15 The Non-Believer was my personal favorite and had an explanation of the creation of all things that blew my mind, just fantastic writing that I can’t stop thinking about.
While body horror isn’t my favorite I found this a uniquely, enjoyable read.
4 Stars ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Huge thanks to @darklitpress for this copy for review.
October 12, 2022
‘If Cronenberg wrote the BLOB it would be Lor Gislason’s ‘Inside Out’ - the comparisons are there, but let me tell you, they write this book with a such originality that they make it their own, conjuring a strange miscreation you can’t help but stare at; and it that’ll have you swallowing the sick that’s threatening to rise as you turn the pages!’
November 17, 2022
Goopy! If you're a fan of body horror and enjoy movies like The Blob and Society, this is a good quick & easy read for you. Could have done with another editing sweep to clear up distracting typos and tense-hopping, but still great fun!
January 18, 2023
Written well and with an interesting format and perspectives. Was hoping for a wee more gore honestly and thought a few of the vignettes could have been a little longer.
Overall, a very well done debut. I liked it. Looking forward to more from this author.
Overall, a very well done debut. I liked it. Looking forward to more from this author.
March 15, 2023
Absolutely loved this book. Enjoyed how it was written from many different points of view and adored how Lor described the biblical twist at the end. I found that scene in particular beautiful and haunting. Lor is extremely talented. Love their work.
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July 14, 2023enjoyed the way this was written and how characters perspectives were woven together, maybe don’t read while eating coco wheats tho
November 16, 2022
As with so much indie horror, the premise and ideas here are fantastic but the execution is a bit lacking-- while I would be fine with the prose in an r/nosleep story, I do expect fewer sudden tense changes, typos, and grammatical errors in a published book. A few of the vignettes also came across as either a bit hurried (could have taken more time to unfold and develop, and could have been more disturbing if given that time to build tension) or a bit undercooked (in some of the chapters, Gislason is extremely good at inventing distinctive, believable narrative voices, which unfortunately makes it extremely noticeable when they seem to be phoning it in with bland or stock characters).
A tension throughout the novella is whether the people absorbed by this fungal, mutating blob plague are entering a potentially desirable state of transcendent union and freedom from boundaries (a la Human Instrumentality in Neon Genesis Evangelion), or whether they are just being digested over time while some small remaining sliver of their consciousness experiences torturous agony. While I think this is a cool ambiguity to play with regardless, I found the way Gislason chose to handle it especially interesting. I think most authors would simply avoid depicting the interiority of "outers" or what the transformation process feels like to victims in order to keep it a point of mystery. But many of Gislason's vignettes feature a viewpoint character becoming infected or getting absorbed-- and they seem to offer *different* definitive answers. One chapter emphatically puts an infection-worshipping character in his place, revealing that there is no divine unity in the conglomerate blob-creatures; only hunger, the pain of victims, and animal instinct. Other chapters show characters who were initially disgusted and horrified reveling in their new shapes, and imply that they retain almost all of their personality and mental faculties. The discrepancy is never resolved-- is in fact barely acknowledged-- by the narrative, and I like that choice. It gives readers something a little bit philosophical to chew on and makes INSIDE OUT stick in the memory longer than it would if it were just a creepypasta-meets-80s-schlock-horror gorefest.
A tension throughout the novella is whether the people absorbed by this fungal, mutating blob plague are entering a potentially desirable state of transcendent union and freedom from boundaries (a la Human Instrumentality in Neon Genesis Evangelion), or whether they are just being digested over time while some small remaining sliver of their consciousness experiences torturous agony. While I think this is a cool ambiguity to play with regardless, I found the way Gislason chose to handle it especially interesting. I think most authors would simply avoid depicting the interiority of "outers" or what the transformation process feels like to victims in order to keep it a point of mystery. But many of Gislason's vignettes feature a viewpoint character becoming infected or getting absorbed-- and they seem to offer *different* definitive answers. One chapter emphatically puts an infection-worshipping character in his place, revealing that there is no divine unity in the conglomerate blob-creatures; only hunger, the pain of victims, and animal instinct. Other chapters show characters who were initially disgusted and horrified reveling in their new shapes, and imply that they retain almost all of their personality and mental faculties. The discrepancy is never resolved-- is in fact barely acknowledged-- by the narrative, and I like that choice. It gives readers something a little bit philosophical to chew on and makes INSIDE OUT stick in the memory longer than it would if it were just a creepypasta-meets-80s-schlock-horror gorefest.
November 23, 2022
“The only difference between a blessing and a curse is which side of the road you’re on.”
This is the story of an evolution of sorts. There are no protagonists or lasting characters at all, just each chapter being a phase of what some might call the evolution of an apocalypse.
A lot of the fun I had with Inside Out was my seeing the progression of the human attitude towards The Pile. To some people it was an abomination, to others it was a God.
The book was filled with all kinds of twisted visceral parts and just as many poignant scenes that really made you think. Reading this short book slowly helped me appreciate it more. I was able to digest what I read and process it to see the whole creation.
I applaud the author for doing something different. Not presenting a definitive storyline produced a greater picture that clarified with each section read. It created a beautiful epiphany of looking past the surface to see that people coming together is what really matters.
“This life was temporary, after all, and underneath the shackles of individualism there was eternal flesh. Under our layers, we were all the same and would become One again.”
This is the story of an evolution of sorts. There are no protagonists or lasting characters at all, just each chapter being a phase of what some might call the evolution of an apocalypse.
A lot of the fun I had with Inside Out was my seeing the progression of the human attitude towards The Pile. To some people it was an abomination, to others it was a God.
The book was filled with all kinds of twisted visceral parts and just as many poignant scenes that really made you think. Reading this short book slowly helped me appreciate it more. I was able to digest what I read and process it to see the whole creation.
I applaud the author for doing something different. Not presenting a definitive storyline produced a greater picture that clarified with each section read. It created a beautiful epiphany of looking past the surface to see that people coming together is what really matters.
“This life was temporary, after all, and underneath the shackles of individualism there was eternal flesh. Under our layers, we were all the same and would become One again.”
November 19, 2022
Well, my eyes were immediately caught by the grotesque bubblegum-head looking cover! Then, seeing the title, I hoped this would be a stomach churning read, and I wasn’t disappointed!
Not only was this a disgusting tale, it was creepy as hell! When Julie’s kid told her there was a man outside, I had full body chills!! Eek!
“Steve got the shotgun out of the gun safe. He'd never had to use it and definitely didn't want to shoot a weird drunk leper.”
“He didn't want the rankest hobo alive standing outside his house a minute longer.”
Then you have sentences like the above that turn my fear into laughter. Such a fun mix of emotions to feel while reading.
Each Segment is by a different narrator, and chronicles a different time/area as the “Inside Out” plague progresses.
Thank you to DarkLit Press & the author for a copy!
Not only was this a disgusting tale, it was creepy as hell! When Julie’s kid told her there was a man outside, I had full body chills!! Eek!
“Steve got the shotgun out of the gun safe. He'd never had to use it and definitely didn't want to shoot a weird drunk leper.”
“He didn't want the rankest hobo alive standing outside his house a minute longer.”
Then you have sentences like the above that turn my fear into laughter. Such a fun mix of emotions to feel while reading.
Each Segment is by a different narrator, and chronicles a different time/area as the “Inside Out” plague progresses.
Thank you to DarkLit Press & the author for a copy!
November 18, 2023
I absolutely loved this book and would highly recommend it to anybody who loves goopy, slimey horror. It was short but covered so many different concepts! Not only did it gross me out at points, but it also made me feel things. Easy 5 stars ⭐️
February 4, 2024
Holy geez! Inside Out by Lor Gislason is one of the most interestingly written books I’ve read in along time! Our narrator Nick Bouchard gets a 4.5/5⭐️ while the book itself gets 1/5🤢 + 1/5⚖️ + 4.5/5⭐️ overall!
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Take post apocalyptic & mess it with a news reel & a military briefing room. That’s what happens in this truly remarkable debut novella. Indie horror meets themes of 80s classics when a mysterious infection spreads through the world, people and animals start melting into horrific monsters.
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Take post apocalyptic & mess it with a news reel & a military briefing room. That’s what happens in this truly remarkable debut novella. Indie horror meets themes of 80s classics when a mysterious infection spreads through the world, people and animals start melting into horrific monsters.
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January 10, 2024that short story tooth worms at the end…. my god
October 16, 2023
I very much agree with Briar’s review — this is a conceptually interesting body horror collage, with a fairly uneven execution. I don’t think there’s enough room in the roughly ~80 pages of this text to fully explore an entire town’s reaction to an existentially dangerous, mysterious, and grotesque disease, so the perspectives we did get, while enough to hold my interest, just didn’t quite satisfy.
August 18, 2024
So gross and disgusting that I ended up liking it A LOT.
Short and easy to read def recommend if u wanna try something different and quick. It was so short that it felt perfectly fast paced. Perfect for me rn
Short and easy to read def recommend if u wanna try something different and quick. It was so short that it felt perfectly fast paced. Perfect for me rn
February 5, 2023
Gooey, grim, gloopy and bloody fun(ny)
With a lot of references to a certain not-so-long ago pandemic and how people react in such situations (from the unbeliever to the religious nutcase, from the relentless scientist to the person next door. We get a range of vantage points and stories of people meeting the blobbish pile of inverted melting people… and some survive, but most just perish…
But I loved how this story full of body horror was filled with real people’s emotions and thoughts! Because the gore and viciousness was only just a part of this entire novella!
This is a description of how people react in moments of crisis (something we often see in movies with apocalyptic themes) and it either brings the best but (in movies and novels and probably in a lot of people in reality as well) more often the worst in them to the surface!
I kind of felt Lor had a bit of revenge on past experiences in this book (this is only a feeling, I am not sure this is true though) like bullying, parents who are against certain life’s choices… things like that… (as I said, I could be wrong!)
This novella has a serious amount of trigger warnings at the back, if you are sensitive to these kind of things please go and check them out first before reading it!
Great debut! Another great name in the indiehorror community I started following.
With a lot of references to a certain not-so-long ago pandemic and how people react in such situations (from the unbeliever to the religious nutcase, from the relentless scientist to the person next door. We get a range of vantage points and stories of people meeting the blobbish pile of inverted melting people… and some survive, but most just perish…
But I loved how this story full of body horror was filled with real people’s emotions and thoughts! Because the gore and viciousness was only just a part of this entire novella!
This is a description of how people react in moments of crisis (something we often see in movies with apocalyptic themes) and it either brings the best but (in movies and novels and probably in a lot of people in reality as well) more often the worst in them to the surface!
I kind of felt Lor had a bit of revenge on past experiences in this book (this is only a feeling, I am not sure this is true though) like bullying, parents who are against certain life’s choices… things like that… (as I said, I could be wrong!)
This novella has a serious amount of trigger warnings at the back, if you are sensitive to these kind of things please go and check them out first before reading it!
Great debut! Another great name in the indiehorror community I started following.
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