Was it really that gory?

At the weekend, I set up an photo album on my Facebook account, which showed the covers of various magazines/anthologies that my work has appeared in. One example was "Tourniquet Heart" (featuring my story "Up For Anything"), as edited by Chris Teague and he wrote, in the comments, "I do recall Paul Finch squirming during your reading at a Terror Tales gig in Birmingham, Mark; I think it was the