The Ammonite Violin & Others [Trade Paperback] by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Details
CATEGORY Dark Fantasy
PUBLICATION DATE January 2018
EDITION Trade Paperback
COVER ART Richard A. Kirk
INTRODUCTION Jeff VanderMeer
PAGES 259
ISBN 978-1-848638-51-8
SYNOPSIS
In The Ammonite Violin & Others, the author rises to meet the high expectations she set with such collections as Tales of Pain and Wonder, A is for Alien, and the World Fantasy Award-nominated To Charles Fort, With Love. Within these pages, you’ll discover a dazzling suite of stories situated on the borderlands between the unspeakable and the erotic, the grotesque and the sublime. Here are stories of dream and metamorphosis, strange lands and beings existing beyond the veil of death and beyond this earth. Here is a selkie who's lost her sealskin, a woman with a blackhole in her heart, a fairie girl fallen to the Queen of Decay, the descent of a modern-day Orpheus, and a killer who has fashioned the most exquisite musical instrument from the remains of one of his victims.
Here are dreams, nightmares, and worse things yet.