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A Sinister Quartet

By Mike Allen & C. S. E. Cooney &
A Sinister Quartet by Mike Allen & C. S. E. Cooney &  digital book - Fable

Publisher Description

2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best Anthology

Contains "The Twice-Drowned Saint" by C.S.E. Cooney, 2020 Locus Recommended Reading List, Best First Novel

 

INCLUDES BONUS STORIES AND EXCERPTS AND NEW FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

 

"With fiction from C.S.E Cooney, Jessica P. Wick, Amanda J. McGee, and Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium's excellent new anthology, A Sinister Quartet, provides further evidence that long-form genre fiction is not just alive and well but thriving."
Locus, Ian Mond

 

"Mythic Delirium is one of the smaller presses which sustains our field . . . This is lovely and fascinating . . . Really fine work."
Locus, Rich Horton

 

"Easily one of the best things I've read this year . . . 'The Twice Drowned Saint' alone is worth five times the cost of the collection."
—The Little Red Reviewer

 

Behind the walls of an invulnerable city ruled by angels, old movies provide balm for the soul and a plan to escape risks grisly retribution. A princess discovers a passage to a nightmarish world of deception and blood-sealed enchantment. A woman who has lost everything meets a man of great wealth and ominous secrets. In a town haunted by tragedy, malevolent supernatural entities converge, and the conflict that ensues unleashes chaos.

 

A Sinister Quartet gathers original long-form wonders and horrors composed in unusual keys, with a short novel by World Fantasy Award winner C. S. E. Cooney and a new novella from two-time World Fantasy Award finalist Mike Allen joined by debut novellas from rising talents Amanda J. McGee and Jessica P. Wick. All four offer immersions into strange, beautiful and frightening milieus.

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“This was a strong collection of dark fantasy/horror novellas. On the whole they were very different but all enjoyable and definitely showed off the imagination of the authors included. The first and longest of the collection "The Twice-Drowned Saint" was written as a short novel, but with the amount of detail and imagination the author threw into the world it could've easily been a longer novel. There's so much going on and references to things that had happened and things that will happen but it never felt like too much info-dump. The world building was great, but never overtook the current thread of narrative which kept things going forward. I really appreciated the setting of the city, the saints, and the angels and the balance in which they existed. The second was a shorter more straight forward novella called "An Unkindness" and that name fits this perfectly. It's a story of faeries and ravens and unkindness and has some generally unsettling content. But it doesn't revel in that, rather the story and narrator agree that there's something wrong. The third "Viridian" was fairly straight forward as well with a repeating structure that leads to foreshadowing and a general sense of dread. In true fashion however the last bit of the story gets increasingly thrilling and horrific as it frenetically heads towards the ending. The fourth "The Comforter" was bizarre, but probably my favorite of the bunch. Once things picked up and got a little crazy I wasn't always sure what was going on, but it was very imaginative and entertaining with some real crazy descriptions body horror. It's just something that has to be read to be experienced. All in all this was a solid collection and I'm glad I read them and would definitely recommend the collection. It won't be the easiest read you'll pick up, but the pay off is worth it considering how much thought and imagination went into each of these stories.”

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