The party are consumed by sudden alteration into bullfrogs, bears, wolf cubs, rose bushes into salt crystals or gingerbread that crumbles into sugary grains. A group of adults and children are driven forward by the need to survive. The world has been taken over by forest and a wider spirit of transformation that has somehow been set loose by the coming together of the unnamed narrator and her partner Melissa. The first story, What Would You Give for a Treat Like Me, is a strong opener: a vivid, neatly executed post-apocalyptic road story with fairytale echoes. Eyes Guts Throat Bones is her first venture into stories for adults, which came about when she abandoned writing a fourth YA novel during the pandemic to bring, in her own words, something “bloody and beautiful” screaming into the world in a “horror-adjacent” mode. M oïra Fowley is the well-regarded author of three Young Adult novels, best known of which is The Accident Season.
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