Garden of Eldritch Delights
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- 6,49 €
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- 6,49 €
Publisher Description
Master short story author Lucy A. Snyder is back with a dozen chilling, thought-provoking tales of Lovecraftian horror, dark science fiction, and weird fantasy. Her previous two collections received Bram Stoker Awards and this one offers the same high-caliber, trope-twisting prose. Snyder effortlessly creates memorable monsters, richly imagined worlds and diverse, unforgettable characters. Open this book and you'll find a garden of stories as dark and heady as black roses that will delight fans of complex, intelligent speculative fiction.
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Snyder (Spellbent) confronts disconcerting truths with variable success in this collection of 12 horror stories featuring monsters dark, strange, and simply inhuman. In "The Yellow Death," a survivor of the apocalypse discovers that neither love nor family can be trusted once civilization falls and vampires rise. In "A Noble Endeavor," an enslaved woman is forced to aid a racist scientist in harvesting the power to rewrite history and rewrites it for the betterment of herself, her people, and all humankind. In "Blossoms Blackened like Black Stars," a soldier in an interplanetary war allows herself to be transformed into something more than human to protect the planet she loves and may never see again. "Fraeternal" intrigues and unsettles in describing how far a woman will go to save the world from her increasingly despotic twin, given the power to travel through time. Some stories are less successful: "Santa Muerte" is rich with culture and imagination but hamstrung by overused tropes. This collection will not suit every reader, but those who love the poignant and bizarre at which Snyder excels won't be disappointed.
