This uncomfortably eyeballs objectification and the slow erosion of time and pressure that are applied to romantic relationships. Joe Lansdale delivers the uncomfortable as usual with “Love Doll: A Fable”. “Foet” being about purses made from the skins of aborted fetuses was an interesting bit of social commentary. Like if “The Colour Out of Space” was erotica.Ī lot of the stories circled around relationships and sex, some of which were my favorites. “The Potato” continues the deep weirdness but now with the alien invasion stories of the Atomic Age rather than the slashers of the 70’s and 80’s. That's not quite how I want to be disturbed. A stiff binding and the shape makes this uncomfortable to hold. It is taller and narrower than the standard paperback.
One major contributing factor is that I rather hate how this book feels.
It was weird enough to keep me picking at it for a long time, but it never quite sunk its hooks into my brain to keep me from setting it down for weeks or months after a story. This collection definitely inhabits a space in the New Weird where it overlaps with gore-spattered horror.
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