'Like the films of Gaspar Noé, the images from these stories, once implanted in the mind, are quite impossible to reverse or erase. The versatile Kendall is here able, via carefully crafted language and dialogue, to make us feel at turns trapped, lonely, scared, angry, horny, disgusted. This is her gift, and it puts her in a class with writers such as Georges Bataille, William S. Burroughs, and Anaïs Nin, who were brave enough to go places that others were afraid to tread in their day. The 23 disturbing, yet often deceptively tender tales in this short but powerful collection speak to our most deeply felt desires and fears, and are well worth reading. As André Breton once said, "Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all." In The Bride Stripped Bare, it always is.'

Marc Lowe, Neon Magazine

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"A Bataille vs Ballard mash-up." Derek Jones
Finally bound into one collection, twenty three stories of creation and mutation. From twisted fairy tales and grubby nights to circus freaks and insect bites, these tales of depravity reveal the bride in her most scabrous form.
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The Bride Stripped Bare by Rachel Kendall
Rachel Kendall's collection of visceral, nightmarish fairy tales is unified by a loose set of common themes: creation, transformation and mutation. The processes are frequently bloody, painful and result in something unwanted or disturbing, and written largely from the female point of view.

Maysa H, Xenith

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