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[Book Review] The History of Transgressive Canonical Horror in ‘Infernas’
West Ambrose’s verse novel glosses over the original Inferno with the wordplay in its title, proposing Infernas as "a place or condition suggestive of hell...a conflagration [and]...the lower parts of the body, the abdomen". In this respect, Ambrose recontextualizes the original Divine Comedy as a site of body horror as well as psychological anguish.