Book description
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…
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Combining fairytale, escapist elements with all-too-real British miserabilism, this shapeshifting collection of 16 horror shorts is united primarily by themes of displacement, alienation and persecution. A number of the stories employ the 'cuckoo in the nest' narrative as an analogy for characters who feel adrift within their own families, whilst those without families are doomed to eke out nomadic existences on the fringes of society, shunned and sometimes feared like a witch in history. Throughout the tales, the author skilfully weaves in moments of shock and tragedy amidst the general air of sombre understatement.
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