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* Read ^ Use Once, Then Destroy by Conrad Williams ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Use Once, Then Destroy Schtinky said Ethereal prose strokes your soul like fetid colors on canvas. Painted onto paper with pen strokes much like a dark feather tickling down your spine, Use Once, Then Destroy is a chilling and eerie treat to the horror fan in you.Not particularly graphic or even overly shocking, these tales are old time creepy combined with new world situations, brought to vivid life with the poetry of William's prose.The horror are vague, and they hide in th. "Existencial horror at best" according to
| Title | : | Use Once, Then Destroy |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (942 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1892389673 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
A serial killer is removing victims' hands in a Venice shackled by winter.A woman at the end of her tether finds a terrible release on holiday in the fens of East Anglia.A man is haunted by graffiti, and finds that his road to discovering the perpetrator leads to death. and worse.A husband trying to comfort his terminally ill wife seeks help in a forbidden zone from his childhood, where blood is the price of perfection.In this spellbinding collection of his best stories from the last ten years, award-winning writer Conrad Williams offers the kind of horrors that move subtly into you, like pain, or love, or regret. They are stories that explore the scarred outposts of desperation and desire, sickness and death, sex and decay.Within these pages you will also find the acclaimed novella Nearly People (nominated for awards by the International Horror Guild and the British Fantasy Society), in which a woman's search for food in a nightmarish city brings her attention from an enigmatic man known as The Dancer, and a host of terrible epiphanies.--Publishers Weekly (starred review)Includes thre
These disturbing fictions pose a great many questions that are, on second thought, perhaps better left unanswered. If violence itself is seldom shown, its immediate aftermath is. The near-future novella "Nearly People," which was nominated for awards by both the British Fantasy Society and the International Horror Guild, depicts a grim quarantined sector whose inhabitants suffer from disease and starvation. A woman there receives a glimpse of hope-or does she? We're rarely sure of anything in these depraved and elegantly ambivalent stories, except that Williams writes with a
Schtinky said Ethereal prose strokes your soul like fetid colors on canvas. Painted onto paper with pen strokes much like a dark feather tickling down your spine, Use Once, Then Destroy is a chilling and eerie treat to the horror fan in you.Not particularly graphic or even overly shocking, these tales are old time creepy combined with new world situations, brought to vivid life with the poetry of William's prose.The horror are vague, and they hide in th. "Existencial horror at best" according to R. Benardes. Conrad Williams is one of the best new names to appear in horror fiction in years.Williams' stories are surreal urban nightmares with an existencial bent that reminds me how human and profound horror fiction can be.This collection is a little bit uneven but the best stories like Suicide Pit, City in Aspic and Nest of Salt are masterpieces of anguish and despair and rank among th. Use Once, Then Destroy (3+/Use Once, Then Destroy K. Freeman (3+/4-)A collection of literary horror short stories.Williams has considerable sentence-level talent, which gives his stories mood (to which plot cohesion sometimes becomes secondary)and sophistication. Nearly all are urban and extremely British (or alternative-British) in setting and theme, and that, as well as the unrelenting grimth of his tone, gives the work a certain samene. -)A collection of literary horror short stories.Williams has considerable sentence-level talent, which gives his stories mood (to which plot cohesion sometimes becomes secondary)and sophistication. Nearly all are urban and extremely British (or alternative-British) in setting and theme, and that, as well as the unrelenting grimth of his tone, gives the work a certain samene
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