7/6/2023 0 Comments Parallel hells leon craig![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. ![]() Livia orchestrates a Satanic mass to distract herself from a recently remembered trauma and two lovers must resolve their differences in order to defy a lethal curse. Both vibrantly contemporary and decadently gothic, the stories in Parallel Hells shimmer with queer power and wicked humour. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. Both vibrantly contemporary and decadently gothic, the stories in Parallel Hells shimmer with queer power and wicked humour. A book for anyone who likes to play in the dark. She is graduated from her MFA at Birkbeck, University of London with a Distinction in 2021 and is now working on her first novel. Craigs collection dances with horror - the monster is not always who you expect. In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far exceed its Creator's expectations a ruined mansion which grants the secret wishes of a group of revellers and a notorious murderer who discovers her Viking husband is not what he seems.Īsta is an ancient being who feasts on the shame of contemporary Londoners, who now, beyond anything, wishes only to fit in with a group of friends they will long outlive. Leon Craig is a member of The Future is Back, an LGBT+ writing collective lead by Olumide Popoola and funded by Arts Council England. ![]()
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