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Flowers from the Void
Gianni Washington
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Belletristik / Horror
Beschreibung
'Brilliantly unsettling and unsettlingly brilliant' Ellery Lloyd, New York Times bestselling author of The Club
Addictively strange and disturbing, Flowers From the Void is a collection of delectably uncanny tales. A reaper readies herself for her next gruesome assignment and a bereaved African witch prepares for a showdown with a rigidly traditional white Salem coven while an outcast teenage boy is lured into a pact with a schoolfriend that will cost him far more than he ever imagined.
Hauntingly macabre and piercingly insightful about loss and loneliness, these gothic short stories lead us into a labyrinth of other possible worlds, each one darker than the last and yet all fearfully close to our own. Living dolls serve as imperfect replacements for the deceased, a girl without a shadow finds her soulmate and spurned lovers' bodies begin falling to pieces. In this scintillating debut collection Gianni Washington explores the limit of intimacy and empathy with the vivid intensity of your worst nightmare.
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The cursed landscape of Washington'
An impressive debut from a very talented new writer
<p>A superb collection. Washington brings us to a place both utterly strange and unsettlingly familiar. Beautifully written, beautifully crafted, each one of these stories is a whole world you might lose yourself in. Washington's words vibrate and sing with chilling delight, as we'
A terrific gothic delight, spending time in Gianni Washington'
A grisly, smart, heart-wrenching collection that holds a mirror up to ourselves; I can'
Brilliantly unsettling and unsettlingly brilliant, <i>Flowers from the Void </i>is the debut of a writer to watch. There is enough invention in each one of these short stories to power a novel, the macabre inventiveness of Gianni Washington'
<p>Crafted from lithe and supple prose, these sinuous stories are as unpredictable as they are inventive. This is a magical collection that displays an accomplished and versatile talent and alarming breadth of imagination.</p>
These wonderfully creepy short stories peel back layers of surface reality with such insight and skill that we find ourselves moving beyond time and space into an underground realm where deeper and darker truths can be revealed.
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