The Design
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3.5 • 33 Ratings
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Publisher Description
"The Design" is a short horror story by award-winning author China Miéville, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.
An anatomy student cuts open a cadaver to discover impossibly intricate designs carved into a corpse’s bones—designs clearly present from birth, bearing mute testimony to . . . what?
Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.
Customer Reviews
Beautiful Gothic Short Story
As an avid fan of Penny Dreadful, I imagined the doctor much like Victor Frankenstein exploring the idea of his unexpected shrimshaw corpse. Would love to see the concept fleshed out into a broader novel.
Confusing
The storyline was very confusing to me-? It was hard to understand what was happening because the POV would change too and yo-yo wouldn’t know until they said ‘he’ or ‘she’. I do not recommend listening to this.