monster soup

Non-fiction: articles, book reviews and interviews:

Weekly humorous articles published on Substack from July 2022 ongoing – https://thedistracted.substack.com/

A Novel Approach, in Mslexia blog, June 2023 – https://mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blog/a-novel-approach/

Book review: They Shut Me Up, by Tracy Fahey, in Interzone digital, 2024 – https://interzone.digital/a-review-of-they-shut-me-up/

Book review: The Shape of Guilt, by Lisa Fransson, in Interzone digital, 2024 – https://interzone.digital/a-review-of-the-shape-of-guilt/

Book reviews: Chasing Spirits, by John Llewellyn Probert; Beyond Glass, by Rachel Knightley, in Interzone digital, 2024 – https://interzone.digital/a-review-of-chasing-spirits-and-beyond-glass/

Book review: Umbilical, by Teika Marija Smits, in Interzone digital – https://interzone.digital/a-review-of-umbilical/

Book review: All That’s Lost, by Ray Cluley, in Interzone Digital, July 2022 – https://interzone.digital/a-review-of-all-thats-lost/

Book Review: Black Mouth, by Ronald Malfi, in Interzone Digital, July 2022 – https://interzone.digital/a-review-of-black-mouth/

ESCAPE ROOMS: Interviews with 12 authors, 2019 – 2020 – https://georginabruce.com/category/escape/

Poscast review: The Fountain Road Files, by Richard Maclean Smith, in Black Static #77, Nov/Dec 2020

Book reviews: Regret, by Robert Stone; The Wash by Daniel Gothard, in Black Static #76, Sept/Oct 2020

Book review: You Let Me In, by Camilla Bruce, in Black Static #75, May/June 2020

Interview with Priya Sharma, in Black Static #72, Jan/Feb 2020

Book review: Ormeshadow, by Priya Sharma, in Black Static #72, Jan/Feb 2020

Book reviews: Wounds, by Nathan Balingrud; The Girl in Red, by Christina Henry; Sealed, by Naomi Booth, in Black Static #70, Jul/Aug 2019

Interview with Nathan Balingrud, in Black Static #70, Jul/Aug 2019

Book review: Water Shall Refuse Them, by Lucie McKnight Hardy, in Black Static #69, May/June 2019

Book review: New Music for Old Rituals, by Tracy Fahey, in Black Static #71, Sept/Oct 2019

Book review: The Water Cure, by Sophie Mackintosh, in Black Static #68, March/April 2019

Book review: Halcyon, by Rio Youers, in Black Static #67, Jan/Feb 2019

Book review: Gamble, by Kerry Hadley-Pryce, in Black Static #66, Nov/Dec 2018

Interview with Kerry Hadley-Pryce, in Black Static #66, Nov/Dec 2018

Book review: Figurehead, by Carly Holmes, in Black Static #65, Sept/Oct 2018

this house of wounds

“16 superbly written, often surreal stories of misogyny, blood, anger, agony, and abuse. Bruce’s stygian tales are technically accomplished, but also powered by a profound depth of feeling. They often compel and overwhelm at the same time. Like the cover art by Catrin Welz-Stein, This House of Wounds is both beautiful and horrific.” PAULA GURAN, LOCUS

“The stories in This House of Wounds are richly allegorical, formally innovative, thought-provoking and ambiguous. All the things I love, in other words.” NINA ALLAN

“Bruce is the real deal. This House of Wounds is an essential read across all genres… It is a compulsive, powerful collection… a debut to behold.” BLACK STATIC

“This is an eminently impressive debut collection of sixteen stories that showcase the author’s virtuosity, range and potential… This collection establishes Georgina Bruce as a genuinely original writer.” INTERZONE

“Bruce’s collection of feminist, fantastical short stories has something to please nearly every taste. Bruce’s knack for ethereal tales that cut straight to the core of what it means to be a human (and specifically a woman) will delight readers who enjoy a smattering of the supernatural and blurred edges of reality.” PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“An astonishing, totally absorbing debut collection. Edgy, disturbing and delicious in equal parts. Georgina Bruce plays with myth and horror beautifully.” KERRY HADLEY-PRYCE

“The stories in This House of Wounds strike me as both an emotional and intellectual examination of pain, from how it spreads and is passed on to others to how it can easily turn us into different, crueller creatures. Each act formed in pain leads to another, then another, and this makes for twisted, beautiful reading. Georgina Bruce is a courageous and compelling writer.” ALIYA WHITELEY

“Ms. Bruce is not one for linear narrative or an easy distinction between reality, dreams, analogy, art, intoxication and self-deceit. In many ways the whole book is an exploration how we distance ourselves from reality, and from ourselves. A truly astonishing achievement.” STEWART HORN

“Very bloody, disturbing, female-centric and gorgeously-written – I would recommend it to you!” TRACY FAHEY

“Oh you are in for a treat. One of the best debut collections I have ever read. The Bruce is a genius.” JIM MCLEOD, Gingernuts of Horror

“This House of Wounds is simply a gorgeous book, with ravishing cover art by Catrin Welz-Stein to complement the contents. Fairy-tale motifs abound – Red Queens, sorcerous crows, Princess Beasts, Woods Kings – yet they’re frequently jump-cut past the reader in fragmented, discontinuous, subjective glimpses, like a mystic marriage of Angela Carter with J.G. Ballard. And the beauty and glitter is frequently the sparkle of streams of blood or the shine of polished bone – the wounds are there, laid bare and held open by retractors for probing and examination. This absolutely is not horror per se, but it touches on horror territory persistently. It’s anything but pedestrian.” PAUL ST.JOHN MACKINTOSH, author and journalist.

“Your book gave me nightmares.” PENNY JONES, reviewer and author of Suffer the Children.

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