All the Fabulous Beasts
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Publisher Description
"All the Fabulous Beasts" is the winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, and the British Fantasy Award!!
The debut short story collection from acclaimed U.K. writer Priya Sharma, “All the Fabulous Beasts,” collects 16 stunning and monstrous tales of love, rebirth, nature, and sexuality. A heady mix of myth and ontology, horror and the modern macabre.
‘Priya Sharma explores liminality and otherness with skill and verve in her engaging and haunting stories.’
–Alison Moore, Author of the Man Booker shortlisted ‘The Lighthouse’
“Priya Sharma has been writing and publishing short stories for over a decade, and I’m delighted that she’s finally receiving the recognition her work deserves.
She’s extremely skillful in creating characters with whom we can empathize–no matter their deeds–leading her readers down roads of beauty and horror. I especially love her award-winning novelette ‘Fabulous Beasts,’ a perfect piece of storytelling.”
–Ellen Datlow, Best Horror of the Year series
Priya Sharma is a doctor from the UK who also writes short fiction. Her work has appeared in Interzone, Black Static, Albedo one and Tor.com, among others. She’s been anthologised in various annual Best of anthologies by editors like Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Jonathan Strahan and Johnny Mains. Her story “Fabulous Beasts” was on the Shirley Jackson Award shortlist and won a British Fantasy Award
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British Fantasy Award winner Sharma's debut collection brings together all the shades of magic realism, from lighthearted to gruesome, for which her short stories have garnered attention. In "The Crow Palace," not all trades are fair, benevolent, or even apparent to the one being traded. In "The Ballad of Boomtown," old powers are very patient while waiting to reclaim their land; they know its residents are ruining themselves and their world. In "The Show," the evil that humans do can live on in their ghosts and be visited upon those who have the abilities to sense them. Sharma's tales are at their strongest and most poignant when they concern love, be it consuming, denied, or realized late. Their magic is usually one surreal piece fitted tightly into a puzzle of normalcy, that often roars up by the end to reshape everything. Sharma leaves tantalizing clues throughout her stories that make the conclusions surprising yet satisfying. Fantasy fans who want their stories deep and intense will consider this a fabulous debut.
