To Be Devoured

by Sara Tantlinger

Paperback, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

PS3620 .A698 T6 2019

Publication

Unnerving (2019), 131 pages

Description

"What does carrion taste like? Andi has to know. The vultures circling outside her home taunt and invite her to come understand the secrets hiding in their banquet of decay. Fascination morphs into an obsessive need to know what the vultures know. Andi turns to Dr. Fawning, but even the therapist cannot help her comprehend the secrets she's buried beneath anger-induced blackouts. Her girlfriend, Luna, tries to help Andi battle her inner darkness and infatuation with the vultures. However, the desire to taste dead flesh, to stitch together wings of her own and become one with the flock sends Andi down a twisted, unforgivable path. Once she understands the secrets the vultures conceal, she must decide between abandoning the birds of prey or risk turning her loved ones into nothing more than meals to be devoured."--Back cover.… (more)

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LibraryThing member aickman
This novella is a case of an excellent execution transforming what could have been, in lesser hands, a bog-standard psychological horror story into something special. Tantlinger gives us an extraordinary first-person account, an unreliable (even to herself) narrator whose descent into madness may
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not be as gradual as it first appears. With equal parts of astute psychology and grotesquerie, this is a real winner for horror aficionados.
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Awards

Bram Stoker Award (Nominee — Long Fiction — 2019)
Ladies of Horror Fiction Award (Winner — Novella — 2019)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

131 p.; 8.5 inches

ISBN

1989206255 / 9781989206256
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