“With her debut collection, Keating takes readers through bizarre and often disturbing tales filled with startling emotional resonance.”
A women in a codependent relationship with a ghost.
During her breakfast shift, a waitress gives birth to an egg.
A young woman tends to her father while he devours himself from the inside out.
A woman desires feather wings surgically implanted to her back.
Ten tales that explore the movement and needs of our bodies.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Rose Keating is a new name on the horror fiction scene readers will want to keep their eyes on. With short fiction featured in such publications as Southword, Banshee, and Apex Magazine among others, Keating earned her MA from the University of East Anglia, and was a recipient of the Malcolm Bradbury Scholarship and the Curtis Brown Prize. With her debut collection, Keating takes readers through bizarre and often disturbing tales filled with startling emotional resonance. Publishers Weekly says: “The search for love and fulfillment takes bizarre turns in Irish writer Keating’s fearless debut collection … Not only are these stories delightfully weird, but they offer a deeply empathetic exploration of shame, desire, and loneliness.”, and Eric LaRocca (At Dark, I Become Loathsome) says: “There’s an impish playfulness and a deeply potent blight spreading from each story collected in Rose Keating’s marvelously unnerving Oddbody. This superior collection of short fiction revels in the absurdity of human and non-human existence, gleefully celebrates the power of the uncanny, the atrocious and the bizarre … one of the most audacious and thought provoking collections I’ve ever read.”
Releasing from Simon & Schuster 1 July 2025, Oddbody by Rose Keating is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
