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Dreams From the Edge of Nowhere
ACHIEVE REAL, NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. Nestle into the Wolf's Den, follow the branches, eat the meat, and dream the Big Dream alongside Henry and Blossom as they return for cinema's most grotesque and erotic spectacle yet! The third installment of The Wolf's Den Anthology and Blossom Trilogy now features special performances and narration by The Cowboy.
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Kate Winborne
6 books17 followersWith eccentric, twitchy mannerisms like a lamb carcass infested by bugs, Kate Winborne, aka “The Rotten Girl”, is a surrealist horror-romance author and filmmaker known for her vivid dream imagery, excessive, grotesque depictions of cannibalism, female rage/monstrous femininity, suburban trauma, and indulgences in themes such as hunger/consumption as forms of desire and love as infection/sickness. She is described by her readers alongside contemporary feminist and LGBTQA+ authors in the horror community as the ‘female Lynch.’
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August 10, 2025
this trilogy was either unlike anything i’ve read or one of the most gruesome and grotesque pieces of work ever written
February 22, 2025
Okay! So, I have reviewed the first two books in this series so far, as a friend and long time fan of Kate, to say that this book finally coming out was highly anticipated would be doing it a great disservice. When it finally dropped, I bought it as soon as I could, and upon its arrival I intended to savour it, key word there is INTENDED, that is not what ended up happening, however. The first day I read roughly one hundred and fifty pages, the following day I read the remaining two hundred and eighty-five.
This book, much like the trees described within the pages itself, grabbed a hold and would not let go, it was as if they took root inside of me, from brain, to blood, lung and marrow, I could not stop until it was done.
I found the first book in this series, Blossom, to be wholly engaging, and enthralling, I found the second book, After The Lamb Bites Back, to be even more so, addictive and unbelievably good, building on the characters, themes and showing off how much Kate had grown as an author and somehow, some way, she managed to raise the bar again in Dreams From The Edge Of Nowhere.
I do not know how she does it, how she manages to keep me so invested for such a long time, how she continues to find new and fresh ways to explore The Town, and these characters! There are horrifying scenes in the first two books, yes, but this one? My God. You thought the previous two entries could be described as dreamlike, forget about it, this one is head and shoulders above with how it blends, bleeds and weaves from one scene to the next.
You know how in a dream you think something, of going somewhere or doing something and the middle part of it, the travelling or the lead up is just absent, but you don't question it because well, you are in a dream, this book? Emulates this aspect perfectly. It is all the more unsettling because you, as a reader, are of course awake, but also when reading a book, you still expect some of this connective tissue, even if it is a simple sentence of "X drove to y." or another line to provide context, to clue you into the passage of time, or the changing of a scene, instead you find it absent here. The very nature of this book, the disjointed, non-linear story telling, the severe LACK of what you expect from a traditional book, improves upon the surreal horror of it more than I can state. I would think I had a grasp on a scene and the abrupt change would flip me on my head emotionally and have me re-reading paragraphs wondering for my OWN sanity or if I missed a crucial detail somewhere.
A line very early on, claiming, "There are trees within all of us." has much, much more to do with the story as a whole than you can even hope to fathom when beginning this journey.
Henry and Blossom are in top form here, as to be expected, whenever reading the first two parts in this series I found myself craving, aching for them to be together in the same scene because those were consistently my favourites and the best ones, and this book gives us so much to chew on when the pair shared the page. On the flip side, the scenes where they are apart but struggling, fighting, almost trying to rip through the paper and tear apart lines themselves to get to each other are phenomenal. You can truly feel the struggle that they are experiencing.
The return of Adam was stellar, the role he plays fitting and fantastic, revisiting scenes from the previous books with a new twist or angle or on the fringes of existing ones was a total treat, and the Cowboy? My God, I could double the length of this review just talking about the Cowboy.
Before I make this too long, the scene that stands out the most when I think of Henry in this book, the grocery store, sunglasses on, one arm holding a potted pine tree, the other engaging in one of the activities Henry knows best, gluttonous overconsumption to the point of sickness. I will re-read this scene many a time, I can tell.
For Blossom, her own strange eating habits, outside of ones we have already seen previously, but her relationship to actual food, was enlightening to her character in ways I wish other people could study and learn from. I feel I saw inside her in a way I hadn't previously.
This book is one that you have to focus, pay attention to, it cannot be read casually in the sense of giving it only half of yourself, to appreciate it properly requires active thought. It is not an easy read in the sense of providing your comfort or giving you all the answers, you have to work at it, fight for it, which to me, considering what the entire series IS and talks about, only makes it better. If you liked the first two, you have to pick up this book, what we learn and how it dismantles things you thought you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt, the secrets the trees spill, the vivid and visceral, the disgusting rot and candy sweetness, all of it, is worth your time.
I know that Dreams From The Edge Of Nowhere is the kind of book that puts the other two in a whole new light and will give you deeper and better appreciation and understanding, I know this so truly that I am already starting my re-read of Blossom today, I cannot wait for the new connections and realizations to reveal themselves to me.
Kate is a wonderful author who has given an entertaining and show stopping conclusion to Henry and Blossom, and I am going to be there for every other entry into the Wolf's Den Anthology.
This book, much like the trees described within the pages itself, grabbed a hold and would not let go, it was as if they took root inside of me, from brain, to blood, lung and marrow, I could not stop until it was done.
I found the first book in this series, Blossom, to be wholly engaging, and enthralling, I found the second book, After The Lamb Bites Back, to be even more so, addictive and unbelievably good, building on the characters, themes and showing off how much Kate had grown as an author and somehow, some way, she managed to raise the bar again in Dreams From The Edge Of Nowhere.
I do not know how she does it, how she manages to keep me so invested for such a long time, how she continues to find new and fresh ways to explore The Town, and these characters! There are horrifying scenes in the first two books, yes, but this one? My God. You thought the previous two entries could be described as dreamlike, forget about it, this one is head and shoulders above with how it blends, bleeds and weaves from one scene to the next.
You know how in a dream you think something, of going somewhere or doing something and the middle part of it, the travelling or the lead up is just absent, but you don't question it because well, you are in a dream, this book? Emulates this aspect perfectly. It is all the more unsettling because you, as a reader, are of course awake, but also when reading a book, you still expect some of this connective tissue, even if it is a simple sentence of "X drove to y." or another line to provide context, to clue you into the passage of time, or the changing of a scene, instead you find it absent here. The very nature of this book, the disjointed, non-linear story telling, the severe LACK of what you expect from a traditional book, improves upon the surreal horror of it more than I can state. I would think I had a grasp on a scene and the abrupt change would flip me on my head emotionally and have me re-reading paragraphs wondering for my OWN sanity or if I missed a crucial detail somewhere.
A line very early on, claiming, "There are trees within all of us." has much, much more to do with the story as a whole than you can even hope to fathom when beginning this journey.
Henry and Blossom are in top form here, as to be expected, whenever reading the first two parts in this series I found myself craving, aching for them to be together in the same scene because those were consistently my favourites and the best ones, and this book gives us so much to chew on when the pair shared the page. On the flip side, the scenes where they are apart but struggling, fighting, almost trying to rip through the paper and tear apart lines themselves to get to each other are phenomenal. You can truly feel the struggle that they are experiencing.
The return of Adam was stellar, the role he plays fitting and fantastic, revisiting scenes from the previous books with a new twist or angle or on the fringes of existing ones was a total treat, and the Cowboy? My God, I could double the length of this review just talking about the Cowboy.
Before I make this too long, the scene that stands out the most when I think of Henry in this book, the grocery store, sunglasses on, one arm holding a potted pine tree, the other engaging in one of the activities Henry knows best, gluttonous overconsumption to the point of sickness. I will re-read this scene many a time, I can tell.
For Blossom, her own strange eating habits, outside of ones we have already seen previously, but her relationship to actual food, was enlightening to her character in ways I wish other people could study and learn from. I feel I saw inside her in a way I hadn't previously.
This book is one that you have to focus, pay attention to, it cannot be read casually in the sense of giving it only half of yourself, to appreciate it properly requires active thought. It is not an easy read in the sense of providing your comfort or giving you all the answers, you have to work at it, fight for it, which to me, considering what the entire series IS and talks about, only makes it better. If you liked the first two, you have to pick up this book, what we learn and how it dismantles things you thought you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt, the secrets the trees spill, the vivid and visceral, the disgusting rot and candy sweetness, all of it, is worth your time.
I know that Dreams From The Edge Of Nowhere is the kind of book that puts the other two in a whole new light and will give you deeper and better appreciation and understanding, I know this so truly that I am already starting my re-read of Blossom today, I cannot wait for the new connections and realizations to reveal themselves to me.
Kate is a wonderful author who has given an entertaining and show stopping conclusion to Henry and Blossom, and I am going to be there for every other entry into the Wolf's Den Anthology.
April 7, 2025
spice: 🌶️ (1.5)
characters: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 (5)
writing: ✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️ (5)
horror + gore: 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 (4)
descriptions: 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷 (5)
surrealism: ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️ (5)
I had very high hopes for this book, and Kate Winborne--while she did surprise and shock me, brutally, from page one till the end--did not disappoint. I picked this up as soon as I heard it was released back in February, so I'm a little surprised only to be the second review here. Alas, what a disgustingly fun, colorful, dreamy, campy ride back through to the start of this rollercoaster ride. I love how tonally different this is from the other two and how much it embraces the best parts of them. Not wholly disregarding the rest, it certainly is not for the faint of heart, weak of stomach, or light of reader. One of the highlights for me is that it turns the spotlight back onto Blossom's character, revealing to the reader previously purposefully hidden facts, challenging and questioning others that have only been assumed, and forcing them (us) to bare witness to certain scenes one could argue were best left under the carpet, and whether we like it or not. For that alone, I will be chewing on this for a long, long while.
characters: 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 (5)
writing: ✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️ (5)
horror + gore: 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 (4)
descriptions: 🦷🦷🦷🦷🦷 (5)
surrealism: ☁️☁️☁️☁️☁️ (5)
I had very high hopes for this book, and Kate Winborne--while she did surprise and shock me, brutally, from page one till the end--did not disappoint. I picked this up as soon as I heard it was released back in February, so I'm a little surprised only to be the second review here. Alas, what a disgustingly fun, colorful, dreamy, campy ride back through to the start of this rollercoaster ride. I love how tonally different this is from the other two and how much it embraces the best parts of them. Not wholly disregarding the rest, it certainly is not for the faint of heart, weak of stomach, or light of reader. One of the highlights for me is that it turns the spotlight back onto Blossom's character, revealing to the reader previously purposefully hidden facts, challenging and questioning others that have only been assumed, and forcing them (us) to bare witness to certain scenes one could argue were best left under the carpet, and whether we like it or not. For that alone, I will be chewing on this for a long, long while.
April 8, 2025
I quite honestly do not have words to encapsulate how much this book truly shook my core. (Rod Serling would be so proud???) This whole trilogy feels much bigger, not only cinematic (which this third book surpasses) but significant in a literary sense. Something that feels wrong to return to, to try and understand factually or objectively, and better left to memory. To return to its original place of dreams. Just as Lynch broke the boundaries of film and recreated meaning with his 'moving picture,' Kate Winborne is rediscovering the potential and paving the way for a new future for what I can see being the 'moving word.' This book proves that she comes from the same place as Lynch. But like a sibling of the psyche--while similar, drawing on the same source collective--wholly original. After reading this third book, it becomes astonishingly clear how that has played a role in the development from Blossom to After the Lamb Bites Back. While I do hope to return specifically to The Town soon, I look forward to re-meeting its characters and seeing it come alive again through its many forms and Kate's interpretations/further explorations of them.
May 4, 2025
reading this is equivalent to an acid trip, i think. lush prose and vivid imagery, it's evident that kate winborne has a deep love for her characters and their story
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