Human Tenderloin - A Satiating Collection of Horror with Teeth
Craig Wallwork was kind enough to send an ARC copy of this book to Horror Bound for review. Thanks Craig!
I'm so glad I got to review this collection. Each story was voluptuous with detail and wickedness. Craig's writing style is macabre, riddled with black humor, and overflowing with creepiness. I enjoyed every story in this book. There are a variety of themes present here, all connected by the thread that is humanity and bound by horror.
My favorite stories were:
Bird Girl - kind of a sci-fi, Ray Bradbury-style story that instills hope in the strange while the world changes for the worst.
Dollhouse - involves miniature doll houses mirroring living people in a terrifying and fateful way.
Human Tenderloin - cannibalism and a lot of dark hilarity.
Time's Flies - a haunting that could be of a house or of the people itself. A slow creep that will hurt you.
Everybody Hurts - one of those stories that has an off-feeling to it until the end because it's sad, weird, and fools you.
Rosemary and Time - another one that feels very sci-fi, like a Twilight Zone episode, about a hitman and his last hit. Disturbing.
I also wanted to note a passage from Night Holds a Scythe that exemplifies Craig Wallwork's ever-advancing and evolving style of writing that I love:
"Outside the beechcraft's window, bed pyres burn below like little mushrooms. God cracks open the clouds long enough to throw light upon a small clearing. It hits the landscape before me like a guillotine."
If you like horror stories that dance around the actual world ending as well as the worlds of individuals, you will tear into Human Tenderloin and receive the satiation you seek. Now, go pick up this book.
Don’t want to miss anything on the site? Sign up for our newsletter HERE
Want more spooky reads? Just search below.
