Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sexual Healing | 2016 | Matt Shaw | Buy |
Sexual Healing (2016) is one of Matt Shaw’s shorter provocations: a novella that takes a loaded title and runs with it in the direction readers of his work would expect. The book uses the premise of physical intimacy as a vehicle for the kind of extreme, often darkly comic horror that Shaw has made his reputation on. It is uncomfortable, deliberately so, and Shaw does not let the reader off the hook with an easy resolution.
Like much of Shaw’s catalogue, the book is aimed squarely at readers who already know what they are getting into. It does not ease newcomers in gently. The title is the pitch, and Shaw delivers on it in his usual unfiltered fashion.
For fans of Matt Shaw looking to work through his back catalogue, Sexual Healing sits comfortably alongside his other short extreme horror works from 2016, a particularly prolific year in which he published dozens of titles across multiple series and standalone projects.