The Morass: Servant of the Fly God

I suspect that when someone asks Ashford what subgenre of horror he writes he just says yes. You have pretty much everything in there, body horror, slasher action, creature, medical horror and so on, it's like a horror genres sampler.

The Morass is both bleakly brutal and highly polished without lacking a certain sense of humor. It deviously makes you care about the characters all the while showing you revolting body horror that never seems gratuitous. Seriously, I did not think of it as being either splatter or extreme until I saw someone else refer to it as such, that's how much of a natural part of the story the gore came across as. The story just flows naturally, you get enough about the characters to get invested but not so much that you get sidetracked and there is no obvious red shirting.

It will make you squirm and keep the fly swatter handy.

Thank you Mr. Ashford for sending me a review copy it was a pleasure to read you (but also I will not forgive you for what you did to Kip).