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M is for Medical
M is for Medical, celebrate the halfway point in an epic series of twenty-six horror anthologies. In this book you will find a selection of fourteen horrifying tales from some of the finest independent horror authors writing today. From obsessions with cosmetic surgery to the pregnancy from hell, from futuristic experiments to psychotic Nazi surgeons, M is for Medical brings a diverse range of body horror tales that will have you reaching for the morphine.
382 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 25, 2022
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P.J. Blakey-Novis
89 books72 followersAuthor of The Broken Doll, parts 1 & 2, both released in 2017. Author of 6 collections of short horror stories: Embrace the Darkness, Tunnels, The Artist, Karma, The Place Between Worlds, and Home, as well as the horror novella Four. Author of a children's book, Grace and Bobo, co-written with his daughter. Editor of Indie Writers Review magazine, and co-founder of Red Cape Publishing P.J. also has stories in numerous anthologies.
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March 28, 2022
This was a great collection of deviant, sadistic, twisted, doctors, nurses and surgeons, and their passion for going above and beyond! 😉
I have to go in for surgery in the near future, but after reading these stories, I may just have to cancel!!
These were all well written, not a bad story among them! My faves were, DR. FEELGOOD, COCK ROT and EXPERIMEMT 8!
*BY UNCLEAN HANDS* - I loved how this one unfolded, made me think "Aaaaah" a few times! Horrifying and a little bit cute 😈
*COMPLICATIONS* - This one made me writhe in horror, literally!! 😮
*IN SILICO* - A great idea and a brilliant twist!
*GOOD GIRL* - Genetics!! Dont mess with them!! Freaky!
*DR. FEELGOOD* - Disturbing, savage, horrifying and evil! All of my fave things! 🖤
*SQUIRMING* - A creepy tale that will definitely make you squirm!
*SUCKER* - This one read like a great, gross, vintage horror!!
*COCK ROT* - An obnoxious, unfaithful, man suffers a brutal, gross, horrific, but much deserved, karmic revenge! I can still smell this one! 🤢
*EXPERIMENT 8* - This was a horrifying little tale that gave me the shivers!
*MAIDEN OF MANY PARTS* - Weird, bizarre tale of discovering and coming to terms with the fact you like Acrotomophilia!
*WARD 4* - This one was shocking and sad, but a great read.
*BLUE, BLUE SKY* - Mysterious, creepy and heartbreaking!
*THE ELIXIR OF DEATH* - Creepy and gross! Sometimes, death is better! ☹️
*OFFENBACH AND EYE* - I enjoyed the way in which this one was written. I found it intriguing and chilling!
5/5 Twisted Medical "Professionals"👨⚕️👩⚕️🧑⚕️👨⚕️👩⚕️
I have to go in for surgery in the near future, but after reading these stories, I may just have to cancel!!
These were all well written, not a bad story among them! My faves were, DR. FEELGOOD, COCK ROT and EXPERIMEMT 8!
*BY UNCLEAN HANDS* - I loved how this one unfolded, made me think "Aaaaah" a few times! Horrifying and a little bit cute 😈
*COMPLICATIONS* - This one made me writhe in horror, literally!! 😮
*IN SILICO* - A great idea and a brilliant twist!
*GOOD GIRL* - Genetics!! Dont mess with them!! Freaky!
*DR. FEELGOOD* - Disturbing, savage, horrifying and evil! All of my fave things! 🖤
*SQUIRMING* - A creepy tale that will definitely make you squirm!
*SUCKER* - This one read like a great, gross, vintage horror!!
*COCK ROT* - An obnoxious, unfaithful, man suffers a brutal, gross, horrific, but much deserved, karmic revenge! I can still smell this one! 🤢
*EXPERIMENT 8* - This was a horrifying little tale that gave me the shivers!
*MAIDEN OF MANY PARTS* - Weird, bizarre tale of discovering and coming to terms with the fact you like Acrotomophilia!
*WARD 4* - This one was shocking and sad, but a great read.
*BLUE, BLUE SKY* - Mysterious, creepy and heartbreaking!
*THE ELIXIR OF DEATH* - Creepy and gross! Sometimes, death is better! ☹️
*OFFENBACH AND EYE* - I enjoyed the way in which this one was written. I found it intriguing and chilling!
5/5 Twisted Medical "Professionals"👨⚕️👩⚕️🧑⚕️👨⚕️👩⚕️
March 17, 2022
THE NEFARIOUS CARLTON HERZOG GIVES M IS FOR MEDICAL FIVE OF FIVE STARS AS WELL AS THE GOLDEN SCALPEL FOR TRULY GRUESOME MEDICAL HORROR
Medical horror is as real as it gets. Ask any pregnant woman who took Thalidomide or Accutane and subsequently birthed macro encephalic flippered babies. Or the twins Mengele stitched together, the Tuskegee Syphilis subjects, and all the other victims of medical science gone mad with its own inhumane power. Although this anthology operates in a purely fictional universe, it has echoes of medical science’s grotesqueries throughout history.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the stories as both entertainment and as a window to what kind of medical horrors are waiting for us in the future.
P.S. Traum’s Good Girl offers us a bit of transgenic wackiness straight out of Monty Python. It begins with a woman’s bizarre request to be fitted with wings: “I want wings, goddamnit! I’ve seen you do scales, horns, all kinds of sick shit. I’ve seen some of the freaks that come out of this compound! Can’t you, like, just sew some on?” I was in stitches and couldn’t wait to what other absurdities awaited.
Tim Mendees’ Sucker (Giant Amazonian Leeches) resonated with me because leeches are an underrepresented horror commodity. One would think that eyeless exsanguinates would be more popular, especially among vampire lovers, just as cephalopods are among Lovecraftian enthusiasts. I enjoyed the story’s archaic gas lamp feel and dialogue. Presumably because I am a sucker for all things Victorian England.
James Miles Experiment 8 had me at “urticating hairs”. The spider story evokes memorable scenes from the original fly as well as the remake. It reminded me of the paper What is it like to be a Bat by the American philosopher Thomas Nagel published in the Philosophical Review in October 1974. That work examined the nature of non-human consciousness.
J. Benjamin Sanders Jr.’s Maiden of Many Parts is a Gran Guignol of exquisitely drawn body horror. See for yourself: “Her fingers were claw-tipped sticks of ebony and brown, her hands were covered with a motley pattern of different flesh. Her arms pallid from wrist to elbow, burnt umber from elbow to shoulder. Her legs were the same, long, and slender pastiches. Her torso was a jigsaw of colors, as scars crisscrossed her body like train tracks on a paper road map, raised like welts to add to her mysterious beauty. One breast flat as a boy’s, the other swollen and sagging like an udder.” If that bit of theater doesn’t hook you, then nothing will.
Medical horror is as real as it gets. Ask any pregnant woman who took Thalidomide or Accutane and subsequently birthed macro encephalic flippered babies. Or the twins Mengele stitched together, the Tuskegee Syphilis subjects, and all the other victims of medical science gone mad with its own inhumane power. Although this anthology operates in a purely fictional universe, it has echoes of medical science’s grotesqueries throughout history.
I thoroughly enjoyed all the stories as both entertainment and as a window to what kind of medical horrors are waiting for us in the future.
P.S. Traum’s Good Girl offers us a bit of transgenic wackiness straight out of Monty Python. It begins with a woman’s bizarre request to be fitted with wings: “I want wings, goddamnit! I’ve seen you do scales, horns, all kinds of sick shit. I’ve seen some of the freaks that come out of this compound! Can’t you, like, just sew some on?” I was in stitches and couldn’t wait to what other absurdities awaited.
Tim Mendees’ Sucker (Giant Amazonian Leeches) resonated with me because leeches are an underrepresented horror commodity. One would think that eyeless exsanguinates would be more popular, especially among vampire lovers, just as cephalopods are among Lovecraftian enthusiasts. I enjoyed the story’s archaic gas lamp feel and dialogue. Presumably because I am a sucker for all things Victorian England.
James Miles Experiment 8 had me at “urticating hairs”. The spider story evokes memorable scenes from the original fly as well as the remake. It reminded me of the paper What is it like to be a Bat by the American philosopher Thomas Nagel published in the Philosophical Review in October 1974. That work examined the nature of non-human consciousness.
J. Benjamin Sanders Jr.’s Maiden of Many Parts is a Gran Guignol of exquisitely drawn body horror. See for yourself: “Her fingers were claw-tipped sticks of ebony and brown, her hands were covered with a motley pattern of different flesh. Her arms pallid from wrist to elbow, burnt umber from elbow to shoulder. Her legs were the same, long, and slender pastiches. Her torso was a jigsaw of colors, as scars crisscrossed her body like train tracks on a paper road map, raised like welts to add to her mysterious beauty. One breast flat as a boy’s, the other swollen and sagging like an udder.” If that bit of theater doesn’t hook you, then nothing will.
April 9, 2022
I have a story in this anthology so my review is for the other tales.
This is an excellent book. Very gruesome and dark at all times. There are some really exceptional stories in here and the majority will seriously make you want to vomit. Brilliant.
This is an excellent book. Very gruesome and dark at all times. There are some really exceptional stories in here and the majority will seriously make you want to vomit. Brilliant.
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