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The Unblemished

reviewed by andrew edwards

by Conrad Williams

rrp £7.99 The Unblemished , by Conrad Williams, is a welcome addition to Horror fiction, and it is an assured

piece of work which deserves a high-ranking place among the best work of both fellow UK horror writers such as Clive Barker, Ramsey Campbell and James Herbert and internationally acclaimed authors such Joe Hill and Stephen King (Hill’s father,

incidentally). Manchester based Williams has built a reputation for himself as a prolific short story writer, and with this, his fourth published novel, he has surpassed himself with an effective, visceral narrative. The Unblemished is definitely worth taking a long, hard look at.

From the very start of the novel, Williams compels you to continue reading. He constructs a prologue which moves from a relationship going wrong to an unspeakable

horrific disaster with deceptive ease and emotive, skilful writing. He structures the main body of the novel by adopting various narrative

perspectives. The main narrative begins by focusing on Bo Mulvey, a disillusioned photographer who is approached by a “nut” in a pub. Mulvey decides to chat to this stranger, which ia a decision that propels him on a mind-bending journey of horror and weirdness.

Williams also tells us about Sarah Hickman, who is protecting her daughter by going on the run from a debt collector called Mancer, who killed her husband. We come to discover that Mancer is an acolyte of a sinister serial killer and connoisseur of flesh called Gyorsi Salavaria. Mancer feeds Salavaria with fresh slices of flesh he is able to procure. How? By carving them from his own customised amputees, who he enjoys sexual congress with.

This is undoubtedly a horror novel of horrific proportions, and Williams is an effective writer of the sensationally grotesque and fantastic. Williams does not compromise by shying away from the more graphic aspects of such ideas, and his choices of expression language and creation of tone are extremely effective; when reading, at times you have to physically pause to process the more disturbing sections of the novel, which can make you wince with voyeuristic glee. Williams revels in the more bizarre and disturbing concepts he allows himself to deal with, and a sense of perverse joy can be felt in his work – clearly, this is a writer who loves horror, and deserves to be read with care and due attention. The Unblemished is a British-based horror novel with world-class appeal.

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