Feeding the Twins

From the moment of their birth The Twins were ravenous. They must be fed. Born of a single seed no bigger than the freckle on your chin, they grow to claim their legacy, their power. It's a tale strips away the niceties in Myth and Meme, Culture and Consequence, down to the common horror we must learn to love. Feed them!

From the Back Cover

"Eerie and deceptively lyrical, this speculative horror parable about the perils of hungering for thorny freedom vs. submission to cosseting comfort is both provocative and seductive, unfolding in a densely-written series of dream-like vignettes that loop and swirl like tidal water laced with glittering shards of glass." Maitland McDonagh, renowned US film critic, publisher of 120 Days Books for Riverdale Avenue Books, & author specialising in horror & erotica.Beth Porter's novella is truly horrible--which I mean as high praise...Howard Schuman, award-winning dramatist and critic"Fabulous writing, so unusually rich and convoluted. I loved it... the rich reverberative resonance of the writing." Rob Walker, Theatre and film director "Very thought provoking... Would love to read more of your work." John Warrington, Video writer/director"Feeding the Twins is a rich, creepy, unsettling visionary fable."Critic, author and broadcaster, Kim Newman is lauded as the world's foremost expert on fantasy and horror cinema. His Video Dungeon column appears in Empire magazine. He has won the 1989 Bram Stoker Award, the 1994 International Horror Guild Award, and the 1990 BSFA award, and sometimes writes as Jack Yeovil.

About the Author

Once upon a time I spent 6-months in a cage with two baby orangutans at the LA Zoo. This is true, but has nothing to do with my professional career. Read on! Before graduating from university, New Yorker Beth began acting professionally at age 12, coming to prominence as part of the award-winning LaMaMa Troupe, led by Tom'Horgan and Ellen Stewart. They invited Beth and her Scottish husband Peter Reid to co-found the Troupe's UK branch, touring throughout Europe. Her successful solo career in films & television includes featured roles in Woody Allen's Love & Death; Tales of the Unexpected; Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; and hit series Rock Follies. Acting segued into media journalism as London Editor of Film Journal International; writing fiction & plays; being appointed BBC-TV development executive; & working as exec producer of corporate websites for an international webhouse. In 2002 Intellect Publishing brought out her book The Net Effect, a socio-cultural account of the internet, with a foreword by David Lord Puttnam. Resident Aliens: stories of NYC in the 1960s was her first solo collection of short fiction, published in 2013, followed the next year by Drama Queen, a collection of original scripts and screenplays. In April 2016 Beth published her autobiography Walking On My Hands: how I learned to take responsibility for my life with the help of Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Greta Garbo, Harvey Milk, Idi Amin, Guy the Gorilla, & Frank Sinatra among others. Its foreword is by Shane Connaughton, award-winning novelist and screenwriter of My Left Foot. Later that year she published Settling Beyond The Pale, her 2nd collection of short fiction. In October 2017 she published her first novel ScreenSaver! a rom-com with a fantasy twist, as well as Feeding the Twins, a magical realism take on the horror genre. All are available as eBooks on Amazon. Her Wikipedia page is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Porter Further links on bethporterbooks.womenstuff.org

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