2025
First Published
4.11
Average Rating
192
Number of Pages
In this collaborative omnibus-style fiction project, four writers navigate the protean concept of the “bargain” in novella-length stories. The lives of a biographer surveying the career of a “haunted” literary figure, a lovelorn journalist entering into a diabolic covenant, a tourist attempting to stay sober through her holiday travels, and a doctor’s complicity in a colonial scandal, stand side to side within this macro-narrative of interlocking themes. These horror-inflected offerings of existential dread, tainted pasts, and uncertain futures serve as an unbalancing reminder that there is always a high price to pay for the corruption of the soul.
Avg Rating
4.11
Number of Ratings
9
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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Authors
Cassidy McFadzean
Author · 4 books
Cassidy McFadzean graduated from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and currently lives in Toronto. She is the author of Hacker Packer, which won two Saskatchewan Book Awards and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Drolleries.
Michael Lapointe
Author · 2 books
Michael LaPointe has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement. He was a columnist with The Paris Review. He lives in Toronto.
Naben Ruthnum
Author · 7 books
Naben Ruthnum is a Canadian writer, who has published work under both his own name and the pen name Nathan Ripley.
