Joel Lane's final collection of weird fiction short stories was mentioned in a Criminolly video of best horror books he's read this year, sometimes I follow through with all the suggestions I see in booktuber videos, this looks promising, up for what's on display, a strong sense of dismay is required, I feed on that shit so that life itself seems a ok by comparison, here's what a Goodreads review said about it:
Grim, bleak, poignant - a really powerful collection of stories, mostly about people trying to escape to somewhere else, and succeeding, only to find things even worse there than they were where they started off from. Lane's prose is a flensing knife - it'll strip you of your skin.
I never heard of flensing knives, but yeah, movie night has to give way to book night.
