The Man Without a Head

A boy devours books until the words consume him. A cow's tongue rewrites history. A man trades his head for a television screen.In this unsettling collection, Dennis Morton explores the strange territories where transformation becomes terror, where miracles carry a price, and where the ordinary world cracks open to reveal something darker beneath.From the salt-water garglers of an Irish cliff-edge pub to a Belgian forest where obsession takes root, from a Turkana boy who can smell oil beneath the earth to a taxidermist's final, breathtaking revenge-these nineteen stories pulse with dark humor, visceral imagery, and an unflinching gaze at what it means to change, to hunger, to become something other than human.Blending folklore with body horror, political satire with quiet devastation, The Man Without A Head is a collection for readers who prefer their fiction strange, their transformations irreversible, and their endings anything but comfortable."Some stories lick you. Some devour you whole. These do both."