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Parallel hells by leon craig6/3/2023 ![]() It is such a fresh and playful approach to storytelling that you cannot help but be totally enamoured with Craig’s abilities. ‘A glorious collection of short stories that reads as if Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson had a little queer baby. Livia orchestrates a Satanic mass to distract herself from a recently remembered trauma and two lovers must resolve their differences in order to defy a lethal curse. ![]() ![]() In this deliciously macabre debut collection, Leon Craig explores queer identity, power, love and the painful complexities of being human in startling new ways. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. And an Oxford historian discovers an antique tome that may help her overcome her academic rivals. An ancient creature, who feasts on the shame of modern-day Londoners, struggles to fit in with friends they will long outlive. Irresistibly strange and inventive, Parallel Hells is a collection of dark and delightful stories that blends folklore and gothic horror with a contemporary twist.Ī golem discovers its powers far exceed its Creator’s expectations. It’s the queer horror book of your dreams’ Kirsty Logan have a laconic elegance that’s both chilling and pleasurable’ Financial Times For fans of Daisy Johnson and Kirsty Logan, a gothic short story collection for winter nights from an emerging voice in British literary fiction ![]()
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