McSweeney's Issue 71 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Monstrous and the Terrible
Brian Evenson
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· 4 ratings · 329 pages · Published: 17 Oct 2023
There's Stephen Graham Jones 's eerie take on the alien abduction story, Mariana Enríquez 's haunting tale of childhood hijinks gone awry, and Jeffrey Ford on a writer who loses control of his characters. Nick Antosca (cocreator of the award-winning TV series The Act ) spins out a novelette about the hidden horrors of wine country. There's Kristine Ong Muslim exploring environmental horror in the Philippines; a sharp-edged folk tale by Gabino Iglesias , and Diné writer Natanya Ann Pulley reimagining sci-fi horror from an indigenous perspective. Hungarian writer Attila Veres proffers a dark take on the not-so-hidden sociopathy of multi-level marketing. And Erika T. Wurth explores the dark gaps leading to other worlds. If that weren't an excerpt from a new novel by Brandon Hobson ; a chilling allegorical horror story by Senaa Ahmad ; a Lovecraftian bildungsroman by Lincoln Michel ; unsettling dream cities from Nick Mamatas ; M. T. Anderson 's exceptionally weird take on babysitting; and, improbably, much more.