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1 1 y separately published work icon The Tallow-wife and Other Tales Angela Slatter , Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2021 21082274 2021 selected work short story

'‘Once upon a time when wishing still helped ...’

'Return to the dreaming streets of the cathedral-city of Lodellan, where a new generation of characters face fairy tales and nightmares. Cordelia Parsifal has an enviable life, hard won, but the ghosts of the past are soon to remind her that no sin or omission goes unnoticed. Slumbering saints awake, hind-girls dance, boys become bears, and the fate of the upper- and under-earths rests on the whim of a single, volatile creature.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

4 2 y separately published work icon All the Murmuring Bones Angela Slatter , Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2021 20220629 2021 single work novel fantasy

'Orphaned as a young child, Mirin O'Malley has been brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling estate Hob's Hallow. Long ago her family prospered due to a deal struck with the mer, the terrifying creatures who live in the depths of the sea: safety for their merchant ships in return for a child of each generation. But for many years the family have been unable to keep their side of the bargain and their fortunes have suffered as a result.

'When Mirin's grandfather dies, her grandmother puts in train a plans to restore their glory - but at the price of Mirin's freedom. Finding amongst her grandfather's papers evidence that her parents may still be alive, Mirin is determined to escape and discover the truth about her origins. This takes her on a treacherous journey to Blackwater, the estate her parents built when they fled Hob's Hallow, but on arrival Mirin finds the estate in decline and her 'Uncle Edward' in charge: where are her parents, and who is this Edward Elliott really?

'A story of mystery and magic and the strange creatures that lurk beneath the waves.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Strange Tales : Tartarus Press at 30 Rosalie Parker (editor), Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2020 21050621 2020 anthology short story
1 2 y separately published work icon House of the Flight-helpers Philomena Van Rijswijk , Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2019 18469267 2019 single work novel fantasy

'‘The people of Incognita have walled themselves in…’

'House of the Flight-helpers by Tasmanian author Philomena van Rijswijk is a strange and satirical narrative, a mythological mosaic of horrors, feather phobias, dead saints, clay flutes, terrible birds, Border Monkeys, forbidden zones and unsettling forebodings. It casts the reader into the future, a future left trammelled by the glacial passage of xenophobia and exclusion. It is a parable of sorts, and considers the biggest questions and insecurities of our age, one of the most poignant of which is: when we exclude the outsider, are we, in fact, imprisoning and impoverishing ourselves?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Strange Tales Volume IV Strange Tales IV Rosalie Parker (editor), Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2014 8363674 2014 anthology short story
1 3 y separately published work icon The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings Angela Slatter , Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2014 8167837 2014 selected work short story horror fantasy

'Welcome back to the magic and pathos of Angela Slatter’s exquisitely imagined tales.

'The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings returns to the world of Sourdough and Other Stories (Tartarus, 2010), introducing readers to the tales that came before. Stories where coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead beneath; where a plague maiden steals away the children of an ungrateful village; where poison girls are schooled in the art of assassination; where pirates disappear from the seas; where families and the ties that bind them can both ruin and resurrect and where books carry forth fairy tales, forbidden knowledge and dangerous secrets.'

1 2 y separately published work icon Rupetta Nike Sulway , Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2013 Z1927828 2013 single work novel fantasy 'Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rupetta's consciousness is tied to the women who wind her. In the years that follow she is bought and sold, borrowed, forgotten and revered. By the twentieth century, the Rupettan four-fold law rules everyone's lives, but Rupetta—the immortal being on whose existence and history those laws are based—is the keeper of a secret that will tear apart the world her followers have built in her name.'
Source: Publisher's blurb
2 2 y separately published work icon Sourdough and Other Stories Angela Slatter , United Kingdom (UK) : Tartarus Press , 2010 Z1770318 2010 selected work short story fantasy Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales. In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are ghosts who dream, men whose wings have been clipped and trolls who long for something other. Love, loss and life are elegantly dissected in Slatter's earthy yet poetic prose. As Rob Shearman says in his Introduction: "Sourdough and Other Stories manages to be grand and ambitious and world-building -- but also as intimate and focused as all good short fiction should be... The joy of Angela Slatter's book is that she's given us a set of fairy tales that are at once both new and fresh, and yet feel as old as storytelling itself." Source: Book dustjacket
1 y separately published work icon Strange Tales Volume III Leyburn : Tartarus Press , 2009 Z1832627 2009 anthology short story
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