“Neal Auch confronts us with an unsettling idea: there is beauty in horror.” —Agustina Bazterrica, author of Tender is the Flesh
“A Dutch master’s sampler set in aspic, waxy horrors of skin, grey tones of organ, muscle clinging to bone, blacker than black background.” — Matthew Stokoe, author of Cows
“Auch's impressively detailed photographs present this equally beloved and disdained animal in a beautiful and unsettling way, much akin to the way in which it is perceived in our collective imagination.” — Mark Riddick, illustrator and graphic artist
“Simultaneously haunting and beautiful.” — Sam Richard, author of To Wallow in Ash & Other Sorrows
“Dark and beautiful, thoughtful and full of a sort of wonder at the fragility of mortality, the thin line between us and the other.” — Donyae Coles, author of Midnight Rooms