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Figurehead
About this book
'(An) impressive first collection ... skilfully orchestrated' – Publishers Weekly "starred" review
'This truly is quality literature of our modern times' – The British Fantasy Society
'To read Carly Holmes is to be enchanted. Luscious, flowing prose that is never afraid to peer into the wild' – Angela Readman
Beneath her soft skin covering, my mother was once made of twigs and branches. Sometimes in the autumn I swear there was a gleam of berry in her eye, a sloe-shine peep between the thorny tangle of her lashes.
In this debut collection of stories Carly Holmes peers into every corner of the strange fiction genre: from rural gothic through to traditional ghost stories and the uncanny. Mothers turn into trees when the sun goes down; Russian Dolls mourn their missing sisters in rotting houses; men offer sacrifices to the monsters who embody their inner wildness; and murderous demons protect young girls' virginity.
Ranging from flash fiction to novelette, these stories are in turn chilling, playful, and melancholy. The bonds of family and of community, both in their fracturing and their healing states, the uneasy relationship between living in the present and yearning for the past, are themes that thread their way through Figurehead. Every tale is rich with landscapes haunted by loss and longing.
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Publisher
Parthian BooksYear
2022Print ISBN
9781914595059eBook ISBN
9781914595066Table of contents
- Cover
- TITLE PAGE
- DEDICATION
- THE DEMON L
- MISS LUNA
- LITTLE MATRONS
- SLEEP
- GHOST STORY
- DROPPED STITCHES
- LIKE WATER THROUGH FINGERS
- MARIA’S SILENCE
- PIECE BY PIECE
- THE GLAMOUR
- WICH
- THREE FOR A GIRL
- PERSPECTIVES
- RUNTY
- INTO THE WOODS
- ALTER
- BEFORE THE FAIRYTALE
- NEXT DOOR’S DOG
- HEARTWOOD
- FIGUREHEAD
- THEY TELL ME
- WOODSIDE CLOSE
- A SMALL LIFE
- TATTLETALE
- BENEATH THE SKIN
- ROOTLESS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ADVERTISEMENTS 1
- ADVERTISEMENTS 2
- COPYRIGHT