![]() ![]() Machado’s collection of eight stories-all but one, “The Resident,” previously published-has been anticipated since “The Husband Stitch” was nominated for the 2014 Nebula novelette award. ![]() With her debut collection, she molds genre, form, tone, and subject like a master of the craft, wielding the most beautiful, haunting prose this year. ![]() The horror stems not from the presence of the body itself but from the body’s contact with constructs like gender, sexuality, and propriety. Whereas Lovecraft-the brightest of the genre’s elder dark stars-abhorred the body, sex, and sexuality, and manifested his disgust through horrifying, polymorphic figures like Cthulhu and the shoggoths, Machado’s tales rejoice in the body and its pleasures, embracing sex as weird, arousing, messy, yet altogether human. ![]() Machado is also, indisputably, an anti-Lovecraft. Kiernan, China Miéville, and Jeff VanderMeer. 248 pages.Ĭarmen Maria Machado’s debut short-story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, reveals a new herald for the New Weird, marking Machado as one of the genre’s foremost voices alongside Caitlín R. ![]()
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