Gifts for the One Who Comes After

Gifts for the One Who Comes After

Helen Marshall

7.5 / 10
Publication
September 16, 2014

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About the Book

Shirley Jackson Award 2014. World Fantasy Award 2015.

Ghost thumbs. Microscopic dogs. One very sad can of tomato soup... Helen Marshall’s second collection offers a series of twisted surrealities that explore the legacies we pass on to our children. A son seeks to reconnect with his father through a telescope that sees into the past. A young girl discovers what lies on the other side of her mother’s bellybutton. Death’s wife prepares for a very special funeral. In Gifts for the One Who Comes After, Marshall delivers eighteen tales of love and loss that cement her as a powerful voice in dark fantasy and the New Weird. Dazzling, disturbing, and deeply moving.

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Helen Marshall

Helen Marshall is an award-winning Canadian author, editor, and doctor of medieval studies. Her poetry and fiction have been published in The Chiaroscuro, Abyss & Apex, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Tor.com and have been reprinted in several "Year's Best" anthologies. Her debut collection of short stories, Hair…

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