Purgatorio #6
Curated by Sarah L. Johnson and Robert Bose
Welcome to the Sixth Terrace of Dante’s tower of Purgatory, serving up sins of gluttony in an eternal banquet. On this carefully curated menu you’ll find children stuffing themselves to death, a forgotten saviour gorging on cheeseburgers between bareknuckle rounds on the roadhouse circuit, wealthy socialites revel in an orgiastic alien feast, and the end of days as seen through an apocalyptic carnival of indulgence. Excessive consumption also manifests in darker hungers, for cruelty, for distraction, or possession. A pair of grifters bent on having it all chase a Scottish leprechaun across the English countryside, a newly deceased addict vies for the attention of Heavenly Higher Ups, degenerate poker players gamble with unforeseen currency, and when an old lady swallows a fly, it’s just the beginning…
Featuring nine stories of grotesque appetite and glorious excess from a gory gaggle of creators, they say too much of anything is poison, yet these condemned swallow each piece of forbidden fruit while reaching for the next, never to be sated. They can’t help themselves. Can you?
Gluttony. Aliens. Sex. Occasionally all at the once. THIS ANTHOLOGY IS A STUNNING TOUR DE FORCE AND AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE — understated praise made of my own free will. I have not been coerced. (Blink). Let me repeat: I have not been coerced (Blink). (BLINK). — PJ Vernon
Featuring stories and art by:
- Mike Thorn (Darkest Hours, Shelter for the Damned)
- Robin van Eck (Rough)
- Eddie Generous (Camp Summit, What Lurks Beneath, Behemoth Rising)
- Julie Hiner (Final Track)
- Konn Lavery (Mental Damnation Series, Rutherford Manor Series)
- Cam Hayden (Futility, Red Flag)
- Sarah L. Johnson (Suicide Stitch, Infractus)
- Robert Bose (Fishing with the Devil)
Where books are sold – July 7th, 2021
The Seventh Terrace – Horror and Darkness – 300 Pages – Cover design and Graphics: Aaron Bilawchuck
