{"product_id":"9780712369152","title":"The New Flesh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt had taken, at most, three seconds for the elevator to pass downwards from the sixteenth to the twelfth … Mr Meldrum had ceased to be, and something hideously different took his place.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man convinced that he has developed a phantom beak edges towards a terrible metamorphosis. Interlopers dismissing the superstitions of hare-women in the countryside pay for their scepticism with blood. The cruel jokes of a girl at the village festival of the Green Man lead her to a crueller transfiguring in the woods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing the quintessential horror concept of the strange transformation from the Victorian era through to the modern day, horror writer, expert and enthusiast Mark Morris presents a thrilling selection of metamorphic tales. Including stories of bestial shapeshifters such as the tiger-men, fox spirits and werewolves of world folklore, this collection also presents some of the weirder shifts of the horror genre, where a flatworm masquerades as a boy, a girl becomes one with a bridge, and a babe-in-arms and her beekeeper father come to reflect the creatures of the hives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"British Library Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57008335618421,"sku":"9780712369152","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0289\/5334\/6096\/files\/9780712369152.jpg?v=1774853848","url":"https:\/\/goldenharebooks.com\/products\/9780712369152","provider":"Golden Hare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}