A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

Two linked tales of cosmic dread braid language, music, and human violence into images that linger long after the book closes. In the first, an exiled poet attempts to translate a maddening text while a young woman traces the collapse of a South American dictatorship through his fragmentary journal. The second follows a librarian in the Deep South who uncovers a recording that may be the Devil's music and whose discovery loosens memory, desire, and the thin borders between cruelty and the uncanny. Lyrical, brutal, and quietly compassionate, these stories interrogate exile, erasure, and the strange power of language and song to summon both beauty and monstrous consequence.

~ Included for its queer resonance in themes of exile, translation, and otherness that mirror LGBTQ+ histories of displacement and survival, and for its haunting lyricism that holds grief and longing with fierce compassion ~