Final Cuts: New Tales Of Hollywood Horror And Other Spectacles edited by Ellen Datlow, part 3
Many Mouths To Make A Meal
A studio fixer encounters something cold, cunning and calculated that is a deadly threat. This was okay.
Best Lines:
“Unexpected corpse removals.”
“Fringe-dwelling producers.”
“Perceived to have some future value.”
“One no history book will every recount and few living folk could speak of.”
Altered Beast, Altered Me
A writer undergoes an ongoing and sinister transformation. Troubling circumstances hint at something deep, dark and deadly. This was good.
Best Lines:
“Broker than broke.”
“Insist on the singer's integrity.”
“So desperately unhappy.”
“Calcification of taste and knowledge.”
“A predator wearing her husband's face.”
“Refuses to cohere into significance.”