"Quite the surprising and engaging literary ride." - Nothing in the Rulebook

"Uncanny Bodies goes further than reiterating familiar discourses of languages. Combining visceral storytelling, perceptive analysis, haunting poetic and dramatic writing, the collection, which is highly recommended to all scholars working on the uncanny, as well as general readers who like being unsettled by what they read, produces an authentic uncanny experience, as many, if not all the texts, will resonate with familiar anxieties and hidden traumas. While the disquieting effect may stay within us for some time, as Sara Wasson intimates, the collection is also an invitation to bring the uncanny body out, and ‘show the shadows’" Monica Germana for The Bottle Imp.

"Uncanny Bodies is an innovative and thoroughly original exploration of the embodieduncanny. Each work in the collection raises urgent questions about how we relate to and experienceour bodies. Echoing Freud’s use of “The Sandman” as a prism through which to view the uncanny, thiscollection challenges the reader to interact with the uncanny from both an analytical and a creativeperspective. This is a collection that will, undoubtedly, have a broad appeal. It can be treated as ananthology, a dynamic compilation of scholarly and creative works, and read for pleasure. However,Uncanny Bodies will also intrigue researchers working on topics such as embodiment, the Gothic,gender, Horror and Science fiction. Many of its essays, including Haddow’s discussion of the cyborg,Catanzariti’s history of affective recognition, and Vassilis Galanos’s chronology of the uncanny valley,serve as informative overviews of their respective topics. For this reason, Uncanny Bodies may alsoappeal to teachers. The individual essays not only explain, clearly and concisely, difficult conceptsrelated to embodiment and uncanniness, but they can also be easily paired with one of the manyrelevant creative works included in the collection. Uncanny Bodies is a unique intervention in thestudy of embodiment. A hybrid of art and scholarship, this is a book that challenges disciplinarycategories and forces us to reconsider the familiar space of the body." Fantastika Journal, Vol. 6, Issue 1, Feb 2022.