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Modern Gothic - Edward Karshner
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Embark on a chilling journey through nightmarish tales that will captivate the ghoulish modern reader. Encounter landlords with sinister requests, ethereal housemates, and a glass-encased jungle built by an eccentric father. These gothic stories blur the lines between dreams and reality, weaving a tapestry of macabre encounters and festering secrets.


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'These macabre tales feature oppressive, labyrinthine dreams, and even more unsettling realities. This is a damp, festering collection full of death and decay - rotten petals, decomposing carcases, creeping fungi - with a really interesting theme of living situations or, as one story puts it, "unhomely homes". The characters in these stories are all experiencing their own forms of haunting, and must question the boundaries between the real and the imagined. I thought 'Rot' and 'The City Where One Finds the Lost' were excellently visceral, and I enjoyed the anti-capitalist undertones that ran throughout the collection.' - Alyssa Lloyd, Small Press Book Club


'Modern Gothic is a tour de force of short horror fiction. Sometimes gruesome and always uncomfortable this collection will disquiet any reader, its perfect for fans of the weird.' - Brooke Smith, Bookseller at House of Books and Friends



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'These macabre tales feature oppressive, labyrinthine dreams, and even more unsettling realities. This is a damp, festering collection full of death and decay - rotten petals, decomposing carcases, creeping fungi - with a really interesting theme of living situations or, as one story puts it, "unhomely homes". The characters in these stories are all experiencing their own forms of haunting, and must question the boundaries between the real and the imagined. I thought 'Rot' and 'The City Where One Finds the Lost' were excellently visceral, and I enjoyed the anti-capitalist undertones that ran throughout the collection.' - Alyssa Lloyd, Small Press Book Club

-- Alyssa Lloyd * Small Press Book Club *

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