The Gorgon Flower

John Richards

• Publisher: University of Queensland Press
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9780702269356

A young woman is haunted by the disappearance of her grandmother, a brilliant mathematician whose research uncovered the basis for parallel universes. A botanist travels across the seas in search of an elusive, deadly flower that was also his late father' s obsession. A talented painter produces his best work – unsettling masterpieces with strange, fantastical elements – years after he was last seen in person. In this gothic-inspired collection of stories, John Richards pushes the limits of what short fiction can be. With settings that range from rural France to medieval Italy to nineteenth-century Borneo, The Gorgon Flower is an impressively crafted, engrossing debut by a bold new writer.

Table of contents

• Author Biography
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• A Fall from Grace
• The Interventions
• The Gorgon Flower
• Jacksi Packsi
• Emanation
• The Wolf-boy of Ruggianto
• The Malumbra
• Acknowledgements
• Imprint Page