If you would like a signed copy but cannot make the event, please contact Blackwell’s Bookshop on 01 or and we can arrange this for you. Parallel Hells and Tell Me I’m Worthless will be available to purchase on the night and Leon and Alison will be signing copies after the talk. Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary gothic, up through Brighton’s queer scene, and out into the heart of modern-day trans experience in the UK. Parallel Hells is a deliciously strange debut collection that draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. Read Parallel Hells for a different take on vampires, demons and monsters you never knew existed.An Evening of Queer Gothic Horror with Leon Craig and Alison Rumfittīlackwell’s welcome two incredibly exciting new authors to the shop for an evening of queer Gothic horror – Leon Craig and Alison Rumfitt will be discussing their brilliant debuts Parallel Hells and Tell Me I’m Worthless with author and poet Rosie Garland. Parallel Hells is a deliciously strange debut collection which draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity. 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.'A glorious collection of short stories that reads as if Edgar Allan Poe and Shirley Jackson had a little queer baby' Big Issue'Impressive. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems.
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It's the queer horror book of your dreams' Kirsty LoganIn 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.Asta 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. This one is out now 17th Feb 2022, so go and get yourself a copy of this insanely good debut collection.
In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human.'Trust me: you want to read this.
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