Fiction

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

by Anthony Lynch •

November 2018, no. 406

University of Queensland Press, $22.95 pb, 237 pp, 9780702260216

Fiction

When I Saw the Animal by Bernard Cohen

by Anthony Lynch •

November 2018, no. 406

As a boy, I watched with fascination an early sci-fi horror film, The Blob. After a meteorite lands in Pennsylvania, a small, gelatinous blob emerges from the crater. Starting with an inquisitive old man who probes this runaway black pudding with his walking stick, the blob proceeds to consume, literally, everything in its path, growing in girth and bringing greater terrors with each new small-town American engorgement.

Anthony Lynch

Anthony Lynch writes fiction, poetry and reviews. His work has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Best Australian Poems, Meanjin, Island, Australian Book Review, The Saturday Paper, The Age and The Australian, and been read on ABC Radio. His books are a short story collection, Redfin, and a poetry collection, Night Train. He is the publisher for Whitmore Press. A new collection of stories, HomeFront, is forthcoming from Puncher & Wattmann in mid-2025.