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Unseaming by Mike Allen [Allen, Mike] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Unseaming about?
2014 Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best collection2015 Chesley Award finalist for best coverMike Allen has put together a first class collection of horror and dark fantasy. Unseaming burns bright as hell among its peers. --Laird Barron, author of The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us AllEveryone in the world awakens covered in blood-and no one knows where the blood came from. A childhood doll arrives to tear its owner's reality limb from limb. A portal to the spirit realm stretches wide on the Appalachian Trail, and something more than human crawls through on eight legs. Words of comfort change to terrifying sounds as a force from outside time speaks through them. The buttons in the bin will unseam your flesh to bare your nastiest secrets.Opening with "The Button Bin," a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story, and culminating with its sequel, "The Quiltmaker," which Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award winner Laird Barron has hailed as Mike Allen's masterpiece, this debut collection gathers fourteen horror tales that, in the words of Barron's introduction, "rival anything committed to paper by the likes of contemporary masters such as Clive Barker, Ramsey Campb
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mike Allen [Allen, Mike]
- Publisher
- Antimatter Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781906148591
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Sports, Anthropology
- Rating
- 3.71 / 5 (191 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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