Wine and Rank Poison
Revenge. Best served cold. Here are ten stories involving most of the deadly sins: greed, lust, envy, wrath, and pride. Strange stories woven in time and place from Ancient Greece to 1929 Odessa, Italy to the modern United States...stories that mix reality, mythology, legend, half-humans and the...
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Revenge. Best served cold. Here are ten stories involving most of the deadly sins: greed, lust, envy, wrath, and pride. Strange stories woven in time and place from Ancient Greece to 1929 Odessa, Italy to the modern United States...stories that mix reality, mythology, legend, half-humans and the inhuman...
With the skill of the Borgia, Allyson doles out vengeance in the strangest of places and circumstances.
Bull Running for Girls, Allyson Bird's debut collection, won the prestigious British Fantasy Society Award for Best Collection in 2009. Wine and Rank Poison consolidates her place in the weird fiction genre.
"Allyson Bird is a rare bird indeed. An original voice in a world of plain vanilla. She rides some dark waves with grace and heart full of light and shadow. If there's any justice, she on her way to real recognition." -- Joe R. Lansdale.
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Format: hardcover
ASIN: B004AHO4O2
Publish date: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Dark Regions Press
Pages no: 162
Edition language: English
I wanted to like this book more. After the Landsdale introduction I thought I was in for a treat but the stories turned out to be disappointing. There is a theme of revenge here that runs through all the stories. Some of the stories appear to be linked on other levels, however some were so similar t...
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