Ragman & Other Family Curses

Rebecca Lloyd

Ragman & Other Family Curses presents four previously unpublished novelettes by World Fantasy Award nominated Rebecca Lloyd, linked by the themes of family, secrecy and domination. Often unsettling, sometimes darkly humorous, always utterly unexpected, here are tales of tyrannical parents, frightening heirlooms, spectral omens and macabre night vigils.

The full table of contents is as follows:

    Ragman
    Fetch
    Teuthida
    For Two Songs
    Afterword

    Features four specially commissioned illustrations by Marc Beattie.

    Published
    May 2016
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    Rebecca Lloyd

    Winning the 2008 Bristol Short Story Prize for her story 'The River', Rebecca Lloyd, a writer and editor from Bristol, UK, was shortlisted in the 2010 Dundee International Book Prize and was a semi-finalist in the Hudson Prize for a short story collection in the same year. Her novel Halfling was published by Walker Books in 2011, and in the following year she was co-editor with Indira Chandrasekhar, of Pangea, an Anthology of Stories from Around the Globe, with Thames River Press. In 2014, her short story collection Whelp and Other Stories was shortlisted in the Paul Bowles Award for Short Fiction, and her collection The View From Endless…