The Hazards of a Cat Shortage: Garry Kilworth's "Hogfoot Right and Bird Hands"
Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we’re reading Garry Kilworth’s “Hogfoot Right and Bird-Hands,” first published in 1987 in Christopher Evans and Robert Holdstock’s Other Edens anthology. Spoilers ahead; CW for amputation and mention of suicide. “It would perch on the back of the bed-chair and flutter its fingerfeathers wit...
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