Out There bears the hallmarks of many debut collections by young female writers (listless narration, joyless sex, life-on-the-internet stuff) and features what I described in my review of Forgotten as ‘not quite body horror, certainly bodily squeamishness’ (organ fetishes, a condition that causes people’s bones to melt every night, buildings with fleshy walls). It is a bit over 7 hours.Īnother collection of short stories about modern life and relationships with light speculative elements, to be shelved next to Cosmogony by Lucy Ives and You Will Never Be Forgotten by Mary South. The chosen narrators were perfect for each story. I chose to listen to the audio with a different narrator for each story. I am NOT the target audience for this one, so take my rating with a huge grain of salt. It’s even more creepy than “The X-Files”. They are meant to make the reader feel uneasy, but in an amusing way. “The Head in the Floor” is as bizarre as the title.
In “Dating a Somnambulist” a woman finds out the eerie things her boyfriend does while sleeping. And for those on the dating scene, she’s compiled two stories about human robots created to seduce women through dating apps so that they can steal their identities and password-protected data.
That made my own bones melt in sympathy!! The most disturbing was “Moist House” in which a man must keep a house moist at all costs, in which he develops a serious and disturbing attraction. I found Kate Folk’s “Out There” stories to be so bizarre that I could not wrap my head around any of them! Perhaps it was the Sci-fi element!įor me the creepiest one “The Bone Ward” was about people suffering from a rare bone disease which makes their bones melt overnight.
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