As you may know, I’ve done a fair amount of research on the Wisconsin horror writer Helmut Finch, and I wrote a retrospective of his work that appeared on Pseudopod last year. So you can imagine that I took a personal interest when it came to light recently that the writer C. Deskin Rink had discovered a new Helmut Finch story on a property of his near Chippewa Falls.
There hasn’t been a new Helmut Finch story discovered since I unveiled "The Mind Worms" at BoneCon a few months ago. Which made me suspicious that Mr. Rink had forged a Helmut Finch story to steal my thunder. But the story has been verified by Dr.Gentz and Torrek Bestlonic, the two greatest Helmut Finch scholars of our age (even greater than me!), so it must be authentic.
The story that C. Deskin Rink has found is called "What They Consumed" and follows the fall of a prestigious Wisconsin family into a psycho-sexual madness spawned by the cruelties of a young rake against his wife, and the utterance of twelve powerful words. You can find the story produced by the promising new horror podcast "Cast Macabre" and read by the super-extremely awesome Alasdair Stuart.
For the devout fans of Helmut Finch this is a must read (listen). For fans of horror, this is a terrifying descent into madness.
