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The Beauty
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Nominated for the Shirley Jackson and Saboteur awards, this game-changing story was chosen by Adam Nevill as one of his favourite horror short stories: “What a refreshing gust of tiny spores this novella explodes into, and I inhaled them all with glee”.
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women.
They are the last generation.
One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women’s bodies lie buried. These are the first signs of a strange and insidious presence unlike anything ever known before…
Discover the Beauty.
Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women.
They are the last generation.
One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women’s bodies lie buried. These are the first signs of a strange and insidious presence unlike anything ever known before…
Discover the Beauty.
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Becca Jones
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“This book was weird. I might have DNF’d it but I really was curious about the ending. It’s a short book and if you like horror, and body horror, then you might like it. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but you do you!”
Anki
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Laceyybeereading
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“FREAKING bizarre weird book. Not what I was expecting at all. I’m not one to give away too much with my reviews (hate when ppl do that), but within the part one of this book the weirdest things happen. So weird that I actually had to shake my head and close my eyes and read again to make sure I was reading correctly. So a group of guys live together in this valley. There’s no woman bc they died of some womb disease. I get the hidden messages, gender swaps, sex, violence in this book. It’s a read-between-the-lines book to understand the point. Reguardless, weird as hell. Very hard to rate.”
Potions and Pages 🖤
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“Probably the weirdest book I've read, which is saying a lot. It was engrossing and almost poetic, but too short. The story is 103 pages and left me wanting more. The end was abrupt, like the author ran out of time or energy to continue the story. It's a fantastic concept, but left me with so many questions.”
About Aliya Whiteley
Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit's European Monsters and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and won the Drabblecast People's Choice Award in 2007. Her novella, The Beauty, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and a Sabotage Award, and appeared on the Honors List for the James Tiptree Jr Award.
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