Vile Affections[Trade Paperback] by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Details
PUBLICATION DATE April 2024
EDITION Trade Paperback
COVER ART Richard Kirk
PAGES 308
ISBN 978-1-80394-360-2
SYNOPSIS
In Vile Affections, Caitlín R. Kiernan's seventeenth short fiction collection, the boundaries of desire, fascination, passion, and dread collide. That which is beautiful may easily be profane. Those who love us may devour us alive. A shadow may shine like a supernova. The eye of the beholder is God. In these twenty-two stories, Kiernan's trademark range is on display, taking us from submerged and monster-haunted dreamscapes to quiet bedroom conversation between lovers, from unexpected and uncanny roadkill to an object lesson on the perils of picking up hitchhikers on rainy Appalachian nights. Moving deftly between such disparate genres as cyberpunk, fairy tales, and Southern Gothic, this is Kiernan at their eerie best.
CONTENTS
- Virginia Story
- The Line Between the Devil’s Teeth (Murder Ballad No. 10)
- Day After Tomorrow, the Flood
- A Chance of Frogs on Wednesday
- Iodine and Iron
- Cherry Street Tango, Sweatbox Waltz
- Untitled 41
- Theoretically Forbidden Morphologies (1988)
- King Laugh (Four Scenes)
- The Lady and the Tiger Redux
- Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments
- Metamorphosis C
- The Last Thing You Should Do
- The Tameness of Wolves
- Untitled 44
- The Surgeon’s Photo
- Wisteria
- Mercy Brown
- The Great Bloody and Bruised Veil of the World
- Untitled Psychiatrist No. 4
- As Water is In Water
- The Green Abyss