Dark Blood Comes From The Feet

"While the prospect of wallowing in the murkier end of the emotional spectrum isn’t exactly high on anyone’s list right now, there’s a lot to be said for confronting our demons on the printed page as well as in real life. Emma J. Gibbon gets it. In Dark Blood Comes From the Feet, her debut story collection, Gibbon serves up 17 acidic tales that eat away at society’s thin veneer of normalcy, convention and even reality. At the same time, these horrific confections – like those of Shirley Jackson – leave a bittersweet aftertaste of humanity"