From a housewife with morphing hands to a teenage girl who communes with La Noche, this audacious collection showcases 16 eerie, otherworldly tales by talented women writers. Contributors include Terri de la Pea, Ruthann Robson, Susanne Sturgis, and Barbara Wilson, among others. "
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Gothic fiction transforms normality--the supernatural becomes the everyday, human fears are exaggerated, familiar landscapes are turned into places that are strange and bizarre. Female writers have inhabited this landscape for generations. Mary Shelley, Anne Rice and Angela Carter are just three of the more famous dark divas. Now some less well-known voices have their say in Night Shade: Gothic Tales by Women. The 17 short stories take place in everyday settings--contemporary houses, a bar, a veterinary hospital. Yet in this collection, the familiar is subverted. In Roz Warren's The Birthday Present, a quite ordinary young woman is given a special gift on her 25th birthday--the powers of shapeshifting. When she falls in love with a married man, Liza morphs herself into a body that this man will find irresistible.
Continuing the theme of metamorphosis--Lisa D. Williamson's The Existential Housewife is the story of a frustrated homemaker who develops the ability to transform her hands into household objects. As Mel's anger and boredom at her domestic confines intensifies, so her hands take on more sinister characteristics. Her fingers "morphed into sharp, curved blades, deadly looking files and long, pointed knives." Her husband will do well to watch his back!
Night Shade is a melting pot of the erotic, the supernatural and the gloriously gory. Fans of the gothic will eat it up. --Naomi Gesinger, Amazon.com
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Where else can you spice up your love interests reading this book for ideas and plumming the depth of your soul to achieve everything you can possibly drain from your mind to THINK you've achieved it! Goth forever!
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Women writers keeping it real. Seventeen Goth Short Stories that inject modern lifestyles with supernatural myth to gloriously gory effect.
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Goth feminist fantasy
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Women writers keeping it real. Seventeen Goth Short Stories that inject modern lifestyles with supernatural myth to gloriously gory effect.
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FANTASTIC VISUALS FOR THE MIND BENDERS OUT THERE
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Where else can you spice up your love interests reading this book for ideas and plumming the depth of your soul to achieve everything you can possibly drain from your mind to THINK you've achieved it! Goth forever!
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So I bought this without even bothering to read any of the chapters. Boy, was THAT a mistake, but I read it because I didn't have anything else at the time. If you're real desperate for supernatural stories, and I mean REAL desperate, than I guess you could get this book. If you're into stories like "Aperitif" (by Susan Raffo): the story about the woman who relates having her glass eye [filled] with sex or the story about a guy who gets trapped on a sheet of film-yes CAMERA FILM - ("Newtime Cowboy" by Joyce Wagner)then this is the book for you. Unfortuately, as you can see, this WASN'T the book for me but everyone has their own tastes.
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