Any anthology like this is going to be a bit of a mixed bag, but there are some real gems in this collection. Some standouts for me were:'A Future of Violence.' This felt like Max Barry writing body horror. Excited to read more by Charles Austin Muir. My favorite of the bunch.'Elk: An Oral History of an Abandoned Film.' I love short stories in documentary format and exploitation film history.'Limbs' and 'Orificially Compromised' felt the most like actual Cronenberg films.Well worth the price of

A Bad Patch (by Brian Evenson) – 5/5Gives off major early Cronenberg movie vibes (think Shivers & Rabid). Loved the unreliable narrator & how his memory issues were not truly revealed until the very end. The monster of the story was also really nasty, and I could really see it as belonging in a Cronenberg movie. This was a great way to start off this anthology.Red Lips In A Blue Light (by Sara Century) – 5/5This story of a strange woman (who doesn’t seem to belong to the world around her) comes

Review originally published in SCREAM Magazine issue 59 March/April 2020Looking for an anthology that promises a wild ride? It doesn’t get any weirder than THE NEW FLESH. A collection of 19 stories written as an homage to director, David Cronenberg, this diverse selection of authors combine voices to assemble a veritable banquet of the bizarre.Many of the stories teeter on the edge of being grotesque to the point of offense so I would hedge a bet that not every, single, story is going to appeal

Disgusting.... I love it

As a Cronenberg fan I was so excited to read this anthology and it did not disappoint! I usually find anthologies are quite hit or miss and my individual ratings of the stories differ greatly but this is a really solid collection and all of the stories were at least good if not great.Some authors took a specific Cronenberg film, such as Videodrome or The Fly, and ran with it whereas others delved into ideas and themes the director is known for such as body horror, man and machine, sex and death....

I have a story in this one, it's great, you should read if a fan of horror or Cronenberg or anything grotesque and unwieldy :D

2.5 starsThis is a markedly uneven collection with a few very good stories mired in an expanse of mediocre and even amateurish not-ready-for-primetime sludge. Body horror is hard to convey in prose without dipping into cliches about exploding heads, dripping fluids and oozing viscera, and only a few writers here seem up to the challenge. Among those few, Brian Evenson provides a rather wry, gently melancholy, restrained take on the general theme in "A Bad Patch"; Max D. Stanton embraces the outr...

We need more stuff like this. Weird, ugly, and fascinating are always super welcome but a remarkably hard combination to pin down just right. Stories Hekati Yoga, ELK, and that one written like a diary about people staring at the moon whose title isn't listed anywhere were the best imho.

Uneven. Most of the pieces emphasize the body horror themes in Cronenberg's films; I think that's hard to realize successfully. Highlights for me: the stories by Brian Evenson, Jack Lothian and Gwendolyn Kiste, and Max Stanton's yoga story was entertaining.More notes here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

This is one of those anthologies that starts with one or two great reads (an intro by Kathe Koja and Evenson's story) and then everything else is just . . . bleh.

La idea de un tributo literario a David Cronenberg desde luego que es algo que llama la atención, y aunque en varios de los relatos seleccionados se note una cierta pobreza en terminos de forma, lo cierto es que, en lo que se refiere al fondo, se trata de un tributo muy bien logrado. Además, hay que admitirlo, siempre que hablemos de una antología, por simple contraste, algunos relatos van a ser sobresalientes y otros van a aparentar estar de más, así que todo "normal", bueno, todo lo normal que...

It took me forever to get through this book due to a crazed schedule that kept me from reading a lot. But ultimately I'm kinda glad I took the time with this anthology--reading a story or so a day kept it feeling fresh and free from repetition. Every story landed for me, which is rare, especially given that the TOC is on the lengthy side. The standouts (for me) came from Emma Alice Johnson, Katy Michelle Quinn, Cody Goodfellow, Ryan Harding, Gwendolyn Kiste, Bruno Lombardi, and Mona Swan LeSeur

3.5

I had pretty high expectations for this anthology, and maybe that was unfair. I absolutely adore David Cronenberg's films, so it was a pretty high bar that was set. In general, this was pretty good but not great. I hoped for great. Some of the stories were great though. Here are my favorites:A Bad Patch by Brian Evenson. A fun gruesome way to start off this anthology.Hekati Yoga by Max D. Stanton. I liked this story. It was an engaging Body Horror story. Well done!Seminar by Cody Goodfellow. My

Cronenberg would be so proud of these stories! Some I loved and some I went....what the heck was that. The cover alone is brilliant.

Probably the single most quality-consistent anthology I have ever read. There are some exceptional stories in here, and most of the others are still very good. Highly, highly recommend this to any fans of Cronenberg’s work or weird fiction generally.

I really enjoyed THE NEW FLESH, a collection of short stories in conversation with the work of David Cronenberg. Goopy, queasily sexual body horror abounds. It definitely hits the sweet spot when it comes to gross. I'll definitely be checking out more stuff from Weirdpunk Books.

Don’t bother reading this “review” - just buy the book already! The cover alone is sexy enough to grace any bibliophile’s bloody collection of nightmarish delights, nestled right along with the rest of your splatterpunk and bizarro. But what if this is your first time, either with Cronenberg or with short stories of this kind? Fear not. Or fear a lot. There is something for every curious delver into dark, certainly something to satiate your thirst. Go ahead. Sink your fangs in. With 18 stories s...