15 pages
Published 2024
Read May 21
Rating: 4 out of 5
This is a one-story chapbook, an erotic horror short “in conversation” with the 1981 film Possession. I’d wanted to see the movie before I read this, but I desperately need something quick to get my reading back on track before it becomes an all-out slump, so here we go.
In our contemporary era of prudery and Puritanism, it’s a delight to read a tale this filthy. The poetry of rot and bodily fluids, of murder and dismemberment to feed the birth of divine hunger, is the spine and substance of this story. It is an exercise in decadent description, and Koch succeeds marvelously.
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