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Gifts for the One Who Comes After Helen Marshall

Gifts for the One Who Comes After By Helen Marshall

Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

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In this collection, Marshall delivers seventeen tales of love and loss shot through with a profound sense of wonder.

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Gifts for the One Who Comes After Summary

Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

Helen Marshall's second fiction 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 herself for a very special funeral.

Gifts for the One Who Comes After Reviews

Helen Marshall uses the fantastic to pry her way inside her readers' ribcages and break us wide open. --Neil Gaiman, author of Ocean at the End of the Lane Helen Marshall whispers in your ear when she fits the noose around your neck, filling you with wonder and dread, urging you into a startling, beautiful darkness. These stories -- which sometimes feel more like spells are the very best kind of unsettling. --Benjamin Percy author of Red Moon and The Wilding Helen Marshall is one of my favorite living writers. Her elegant, grotesque stories are best encountered like this, gathered together in a book and in conversation with each other; only then can you appreciate the staggering variety of her imagination. What unifies them, and what elevates them from being merely great fantasy to being literature, is the ache of human experience that informs them all: the yearning; the heartbreak; the desperate, misinformed love. This is life, in all its beauty and sorrow. --Nathan Ballingrud Gifts For The One Who Comes After should single out Marshall as one of the most accomplished writers of the fantastic being published today, an exceptional collection likely to be among the best 2014 has to offer. --This Is Horror ... As she proved in her 2012 debut, Hair Side, Flesh Side, Marshall is a master at ?bizarre, myth-infused scenarios that play on a reader's subconscious in ways creepy and oddly pleasurable. Gifts For The One Who Comes After extends this practice with a suite of tales that employ tropes borrowed from Gothic and Grand Guignol traditions, viewing quotidian reality through a distorted lens that exaggerates angles and shadows, making the real unreal or, at the very least, surreal. --The National Post

About Helen Marshall

Helen Marshall's debut collection Hair Side, Flesh Side earned her praise as the new face of horror (January Magazine). Her work has been nominated for the Aurora Award from the Canadian Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy, the Bram Stoker Award from the Horror Writers Association, and the Sydney J. Bounds Award from the British Fantasy Society, which she won in 2013.

Table of Contents

Introduction (Ann VanderMeer)
The Hanging Game
Secondhand Magic
I'm the Lady of Good Times, She Said
Lessons in the Raising of Household Objects
All My Love, a Fishhook
In the Year of Omens
The Santa Claus Parade
The Zhanell Adler Brass Spyglass
Death and the Girl from Pi Delta Zeta
Crossroads and Gateways
Ship House
A Brief History of Science Fiction
Supply Limited, Act Now
We Ruin the Sky
In the Moonlight, the Skin of You
The Gallery of the Eliminated
The Slipway Grey

Additional information

CIN1771483024G
9781771483025
1771483024
Gifts for the One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall
Helen Marshall
Used - Good
Paperback
ChiZine Publications
20141002
360
Short-listed for Bram Stoker Awards (Fiction Collection) 2014
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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