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The Ammonite Violin & Others
A Fantasy Novel by Caitlín R Kiernan
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Dark Fantasy,
- Weird Fiction,
- Fantasy Short Stories,
- Erotic Fantasy,
- Mythic Retellings
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stories blending the unspeakable with the erotic and grotesque
- Dark fantasy featuring selkies, fairies, and otherworldly metamorphosis
- Short fiction that blurs dream logic with haunting reality
In Caitlín R. Kiernan’s The Ammonite Violin & Others, one of contemporary dark fantasy’s most bewitching and distinctive voices is back with another banquet of the weird and unexpected.
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.
The Ammonite Violin & Others is comprised of stories first published in the subscription only Sirenia Digest, run by Caitlín for her most devoted readers.
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