#Backwaters: 12 Murky Tales

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Horror Book Review: Backwaters: 12 Murky Tales (Lee Rozelle)

Imaginative and memorable, thought-provoking at times, and deeply sickening at others, much of the imagery that Backwaters: 12 Murky Tales creates will stay with the reader for a long time afterwards.

Welcome to Tallapoochee, a Southern backwater plagued by an experimental toxin that’s turning townsfolk into genetically modified freaks. Follow a puzzling trail of atrocities committed by an enigmatic river cult. Delve into thrilling and funny tales of body horror, bizarro, and the weird. Read the unthinkable testimonies of the living and the dead. This “water-breaking” collection of twelve…

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(ARC) Review: Backwaters: 12 Murky Tales by Lee Rozelle

Hope you’ve got a strong stomach Hope you’ve got a strong stomach. Rozelle’s Backwaters is a series of disturbing and quirky tales that firmly plant mutated tongue in Pelagic cheek. The first eleven short stories are loosely related explorations of body horror and obscura, the format typically being a selection of some ‘ordinary’ activity, e.g. false teeth, braces, yoga and Rozelle finding some…

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| Scroll through for 3 photos | “It is a strange community,” the Tribune wrote in 1936. “The boats, most of them, are small wooden cabins. They are built on scows. These are the more pretentious dwellings. Some of the residents live in old, rotting motor boats, mired against the banks.” Houseboat City, as the Tribune dubbed it, was a motley assortment of about 100 floating residences on the Chicago River stretching from Belmont Avenue north to Montrose Avenue. Residents of the community lived there for different reasons — housing shortages after the war, the Great Depression, retirement homes for former fishermen, or just wanting to live off the grid. The legal status of the houseboats was as murky as the water beneath them. Periodic skirmishes with neighbors and the law marked the embattled history of Houseboat City. By the 1960s, most of the river dwellers were gone — their battles now half-forgotten backwater tales. 1) Houseboats cluster along the Chicago River, just south of the Irving Park Road Bridge in 1948. 2) The view of about fifteen houseboats from the Irving Park Road Bridge in 1936. 3) The Sept. 12, 1948, Chicago Tribune showed photos of houseboats and their inhabitants on the Chicago River. To read more about the history of Houseboat City, click the link in our bio. #houseboatcity #chicagohouseboats #chicagoriver https://ift.tt/2IJNoe3