An appealing face was always finer, its sensuousness heightened, when dressed in bruises, cuts and scrapes, when rouged with blood, when swollen and smudged and purpled with the passion of violence, when paled with death; extinction still a chill bloom in its cheeks.

A master of dark literature, Stephen Studach was involved in Paroxysm’s first release, Paroxysm, back in 1998. A Thing of Beauty is his first novella with us, and Paroxysm’s first foray into the horror genre.

$13.00 Retail (Aust $)

58pp – ISBN 9781876502089 – © 2003, Paroxysm Press – PAR005