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Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
| Author: | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
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Subterranean Press, 2012 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan's World-Fantasy Award nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Carter, Thomas Ligotti, Shirley Jackson, and Harlan Ellison. Here, again, in her eighth collection, we visit the borderlands where the weird, horrific, mythic, and erotic intersect. Once again, Kiernan sets her masterful, intoxicating prose to the task of retelling fairy tales, spinning sensual post-Lovecraftian yarns, and blurring the lines between pain and pleasure. Here is a celebration of the bizarre and beautiful, and a marriage of unlikely worlds. From a reverence of the dead to the sacrifices the living make to unspeakable gods, from clockwork dreams to tales of merciless revenge, Kiernan blurs the artificial lines of genre, and shows us a world where there is no division between the light and dark.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Sexing the Weird - essay
- The Wolf Who Cried Girl - (2007) - short story
- The Bed of Appetite - (2007) - short story
- Subterraneus - (2012) - short story
- The Collector of Bones - (2008) - short story
- Beatification - (2008) - short story
- Untitled Grotesque - (2007) - short story
- Flotsam - (2009) - short story
- Regarding Attrition and Severance - (2008) - short story
- Rappaccini's Dragon (Murder Ballad No. 5) - (2008) - short story
- Unter den Augen des Mondes - (2008) - short story
- The Melusine (1898) - (2011) - short story
- Fecunditatum (Murder Ballad No. 6) - (2012) - short story
- I Am the Abyss, and I Am Light - (2008) - short story
- Dancing with the Eight of Swords - (2008) - short story by Caitlín R. Kiernan
- Murder Ballad No. 7 - (2008) - short story
- Lullaby of Partition and Reunion - (2008) - short story
- Derma Sutra (1891) - (2008) - short story
- The Thousand-and-Third Tale of Scheherazade - (2009) - short story
- The Belated Burial - (2009) - short story
- The Bone's Prayer - (2009) - short story
- A Canvas for Incoherent Arts - (2009) - short story
- The Peril of Liberated Objects, or the Voyeur's Seduction - (2009) - short story
- Pickman's Other Model (1929) - (2008) - novelette
- At the Gate of Deeper Slumber - (2009) - short story
- Fish Bride - (2009) - short story
- "But She Also Lies Broken and Transformed": An Afterword - essay by Sonya Taaffe
- About the Author - essay
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