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Kiernan, Caitlín R.
Subjects
Vampires -- Fiction.
Dragons -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
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Kiernan, Caitlín R.
Vampires -- Fiction.
Dragons -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
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Dear
sweet
filthy
world
/ Caitlín R. Kiernan.
by
Kiernan, Caitlín R.
Subterranean Press, 2017.
Call #:
FICTION KIE
Subjects
Vampires -- Fiction.
Dragons -- Fiction.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781596068193 (hc.)
1596068191 (hc.)
Edition:
1st edition, Deluxe hardcover ed.
Description:
297 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in the subscription-only Sirenia digest.
Contents:
Werewolf smile -- Vicaria Draconis -- Paleozoic annunciation -- Charcloth, firesteel, and flint -- Shipwrecks above -- The dissevered heart -- Exuvium -- Drawing from life -- The eighth veil -- Aspinthion -- Three months, three scenes, with snow -- Workprint -- Tempest witch -- Fairy tale of the maritime -- 30 -- The carnival is dead and gone -- Scylla for dummies -- Figurehead -- Down to Gehenna -- The granting cabinet -- Evensong -- Latitude 41℗ʻ21'45.89"N, longitude 71℗ʻ29'0.62"W -- Another tale of two cities -- Blast the human flower -- Camuffare -- Here is no why -- Hauplatte/Gegenplatte -- Sanderlings -- Interstate love song (Murder ballad no. 8).
Summary:
"What exactly is the difference between a love letter and a suicide note? Is there really any difference at all? These might be the questions posed by
Dear
Sweet
Filthy
World
, Caitlin R. Kiernan's fourteenth collection of short fiction, comprised of twenty-eight uncollected and impossible-to-find stories. Treading the grim places where desire and destruction, longing and horror intersect, the author rises once again to meet the high expectations she set with such celebrated collections as Tales of Pain and Wonder, To Charles Fort, With Love, and the
World
Fantasy Award-winning The Ape's Wife and Other Stories. In these p. you'll meet a dragon's lover, a drowned vampire cursed always to ride the tides, a wardrobe that grants wishes, and a lunatic artist's marriage of the Black Dahlia and the Beast of Gévaudan. You'll visit a ruined post-industrial Faerie, travel back to tropical Paleozoic seas and ahead to the far-flung future, and you'll meet a desperate writer forced to sell her memories for new ideas. Here are twenty-eight tales of apocalypse and rebirth, of miraculous transformation and utter annihilation. Here is the place where professing your undying devotion might be precisely the same thing as signing your own death warrant or worse. The stories in
Dear
Sweet
Filthy
World
were first published in the subscription-only Sirenia Digest, run by Caitlin for her most devoted readers. This publication marks the first availability to the general public for most of these rare tales."--From publisher.
Genre:
Short stories.
Horror fiction.
Fantasy fiction.
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