No Love Lost
The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls, Introduced by Patricia Lockwood
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About this book
Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the
mistress
of the weird behind frogman-romance
Mrs Caliban
for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.
'Wonderful.'
Margaret Atwood
'Genius.'
Patricia Lockwood
'Remarkable.'
Joseph Heller
'Perfect.'
Max Porter
''Immensely skillful'
. Ursula K. Le Guin
'Tender, erotic, singular.'
Carmen Maria Machado
'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.'
Marlon James
'One of the greatest short story writers we have.'
The Times
'You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.'
Sunday Times
After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman.
Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion.
A wife confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her own.
Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers.
Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: s
urrealist, subversive, tragicomic. P
repare to meet what lurks beneath .
'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.'
Independent
'Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you're simply not safe until everybody else is dead . . . Brilliant.'
New Yorker
'Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. '
Guardian
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Table of contents
- Landing Page
- Praise
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Patricia Lockwood
- Blessed Art Thou
- In the Act
- Friends in the Country
- Something to Write Home About
- Theft
- Inheritance
- I See a Long Journey
- No Love Lost
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Also by Rachel Ingalls
- Copyright
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