Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines
driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love
and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach
the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the
liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there’s Livia Llewellyn, an author praised
for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal
narratives.
Lush, layered, multifaceted, and elegant, the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike, and why she has
been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year’s best anthologies. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and
cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking
into tender flesh.
Contents:
- Pantopticon
- Stabilimentum
- Wasp & Snake
- Cinereous
- Yours Is the Right to Begin
- Lord of the Hunt
- In the Court of King Cupressaceae, 1982 (original to collection)
- It Feels Better Biting Down
- Allochthon
- Furnace
- The Mysteries
- The Last, Clean, Bright Summer
- and Love shall have no Dominion
- The Unattainable
