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Obra finalista del World Fantasy Award y del Aurealis Award a la mejor colección. Imagina un mundo de brujas abriendo portales a otros mundos, de nodrizas de siniestras pretensiones; de jóvenes que deciden encerrarse en una torre para siempre por voluntad propia; de trols que ansían ser más humanas que las humanas, de seres alados que han perdido sus alas y ansían recuperarlas; de ignotos mapas grabados en piel humana que, si sabes leerlos, podrán llevarte al reino de los muertos; de familias que quebrantan los pactos establecidos con las entidades del bosque a las que se encomendaron, aunque eso suponga su ruina; de ninfas del lago que te concederán tu mayor deseo a cambio de una ofrenda, aunque lo que recibas no sea exactamente lo que esperabas; de fabricantes de muñecas capaces de depositar porciones de su propia alma en sus creaciones; de niños amasados con masa de pan; de madres, hijas y hermanas que se traicionan entre sí; de viajes a las entrañas de la montaña; de anhelos, pérdidas y fatalidades... Bienvenidos al maravilloso y exquisito mundo creado por Angela Slatter, donde la magia y el horror de los cuentos de hadas cobran una nueva dimensión.
Author
Angela Slatter is the author of the urban fantasy novels Vigil (2016) and Corpselight (2017), as well as eight short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, and six Aurealis Awards. Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies such The Mammoth Book of New Horror, The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror, The Best Horror of the Year, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy and Horror, and The Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Russian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, and Romanian. Victoria Madden of Sweet Potato Films (The Kettering Incident) has optioned the film rights to one of her short stories. She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. Her novellas, Of Sorrow and Such (from Tor.com), and Ripper (in the Stephen Jones anthology Horrorology, from Jo Fletcher Books) were released in October 2015. The third novel in the Verity Fassbinder series, Restoration, will be released in 2018 by Jo Fletcher Books (Hachette International). She is represented by Ian Drury of the literary agency Sheil Land for her long fiction, by Lucy Fawcett of Sheil Land for film rights, and by Alex Adsett of Alex Adsett Publishing Services for illustrated storybooks.
