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.Īlso available as an audiobook on . Parallel Hells by Leon Craig On sale 17th February 2022 Price: £14. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. /rebates/2fParallel-Hells-Leon-Craig2fbook2f50897266&. 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. A Live Podcast Event: Books & Rhymes in Conversation with Mükoma wa Ngügï. Some say that hell is other people and some say hell is loneliness. Carly Tremayne chats with author Leon Craig about her collection of queer gothic horror stories Parallel Hells, which was published in 2022 by Sceptre Book. Leon Craig’s short story collection Parallel Hells, published by Sceptre Books in February 2022, is a collection of dark and delightful stories that blends folklore and gothic horror with a contemporary twist, exploring queer identity, power, love and the painful complexities of being human in startling new ways. Parallel Hells and the Queer Gothic Leon Craig, in conversation with Julia Armfield, at Libreria IRL.

This deliciously strange debut collection draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human.

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