Television Adaptation for Feminist Horror Collection Her Body and Other Parties

FX is to adapt the feminist collection of short stories, Her Body and Other Parties into a television series, which the creators claim will be a ‘feminist Black Mirror’. The short story collection from Carmen Maria Machado has won several awards despite being the author’s debut collection and now we’re about to see it on the small screen, as announced by the author on her Twitter page.

I can *finally* say something! HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES is officially in development over at @FXNetworks. FX has made some of my favorite shows in the past few years (Atlanta, The Americans) & I’m ridiculously excited to see what comes next. ? https://t.co/12smhw8xdP

— Carnage “The Hatchet” Machado (@carmenmmachado) October 15, 2018

Her Body and Other Parties was first published in 2017 and was lauded for its brilliant and often gruesome stories like The Husband Stitch and a warped reimagining of Law and Order: SVU.

The series is to be written and executively produced by Gina Welch, who has previously worked on FX’s Feud: Bette and Joan, AMC’s The Terror and Hulu’s Castle Rock, among other shows.

There’s no release date yet and filming has yet to begin, so if you think this sounds right up your street you probably still have plenty of time to read the collection before the adaptation airs.