In an American brought to its knees by worldwide economic collapse, militia uprisings and massive computer failures, what is a poor boy to do? If youre Graff Pauley, you collect organs and other body parts including heads for Edgerton. But when Pauley becomes another trophy on Edgertons wall, he realizes that the only way he can regain his freedom and a new body is to become enmeshed even deeper in Edgertons complex web.

The Body Shop is an original novelette that leads the anthology of horror fiction by the same name from Patrick Welch. Many of the stories have previously appeared in some of the Internets most prestigious publications and range from ancient Greece to the limits of outer space. If you like science fiction, dark fantasy, romance, sex, violence, mystery, cannibalism, voodoo or bubblegum music, you just might like The Body Shop.