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Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories
| Author: | GennaRose Nethercott |
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Vintage, 2024 |
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| Book Type: | Collection |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
| Sub-Genre Tags: | Dark Fantasy Magical Realism |
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Synopsis
From the author of the breakout fantasy novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring all the ways love can save us--or go monstrously wrong.
The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, hungry the desire to be loved, and seen, and known. And the terror of those things to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be known and recognized as the monstrous thing you are.
Two young women working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secrets--and their own doomed summer love. A group of witchy teens concoct the perfect plan to induce the hated new girl into their ranks. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriend and finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. And two outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the world's lack of understanding might bring about its own end.
In these lush, beautifully written stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores love in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.
Table of Contents:
- Sundown at the Eternal Staircase - short story by GennaRose Nethercott
- A Diviner's Abecedarian - short story
- The Thread Boy - short story
- Fox Jaw - short story
- The War of Fog - short story
- Drowning Lessons - short story
- The Autumn Kill - short story
- Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart - short story
- A Lily Is a Lily - short fiction
- Dear Henrietta - short story
- Possessions - short story
- Homebody - short story
- A Haunted Calendar - short story
- The Plums at the End of the World - short story
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