If you're looking for something a little different in the way of horror, Nalo Hopkinson's Skin Folk fits the bill. I don't recommend all of the stories in this book, as some are so sex driven as to prove rather unnecessary, but some of the stories in here are great and have a very different tone based on their Caribbean background. "The Glass-Bottle Trick" is a stand out of horror as a twist on the Bluebeard legend. "A Habit of Waste" actually isn't horror so much as it is a sci-fi meditation on what it means to use what you've been given. "Greedy Choke Puppy" is a Caribbean take on vampire lore. "Slow Cold Chick" is a grotesque story about a basilisk. "Tan-Tan and Dry Bone" is maybe the most developed of the stories, as it involves a previous character of the author and is a disturbing take on guilt. Those are the stories I'd stick to in the book, as the rest either aren't as good or are so graphically sex laden that they made reading them rather unpleasant. Hopkinson's stories are heavy on lyricism, and you have to stick with them not always going where you expect or having deeply developed plots. It's a good addition to the horror book list though, just to counter-balance Angela Carter's work.
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June 2022
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