I loved The Marigold as a darkly satirical, yet oddly hopeful dystopian tale about a disparate and desperate clutch of characters (not all of them human) struggling to survive in a near-future version of Toronto, a city in crisis and decay.
I thought the choice of a failing luxury condominium as a central metaphor was an inspired one: compromised in its construction, shored up with human sacrifices, and inhabited by a spreading sentient fungus known as The Wet. I found the book to be funny, scary, suspenseful, and unsettling in all the best ways.
“This impressively bleak vision of the near future is as grotesquely amusing as it is grim.” ― Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW
“A gripping tour-de-force torn from tomorrow’s headlines.” ― David Demchuk, author of Red X and The Bone Mother
“A bold dystopian novel that captivates with its dread and depth. The Marigold is unhinged literary horror that goes right to the source of decay.” ― Iain Reid, award-winning author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Foe, and We Spread
In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface,…
I have loved all of Kelly’s books, and White Cat, Black Dog has some of her strongest work yet.
These surreal short stories take their inspiration from fairy tales and folk tales, some well-known and others obscure. I was especially delighted by The White Cat’s Divorce and Skinder’s Veil. I really enjoyed how she brought many of these stories into the modern world, magnifying their sharp dark humour and making them strangely more relatable than I would have expected.
I think they are ideal bedtime reading when the lights are low and the covers are pulled up under your chin and the wind is whispering faintly around the windows.
Seven modern fairytales from Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, featuring illustrations by award-winning artist Shaun Tan.
Leaving behind the enchanted castles, deep, dark woods and gingerbread cottages of fairytales for airport waiting rooms, alien planets and a cannabis farm run by a team of hospitable cats, White Cat, Black Dog offers a fresh take on the stories that you thought you knew.
Here you'll find stoner students, failing actors and stranded professors questing for love, revenge or even just a sense of purpose. Poised on the edges between magic, modernity and mundanity, White Cat, Black Dog will delight, beguile, occasionally…
It’s not often that a book frightens me, but Hailey Piper’s novel A Light Most Hateful pushed all my buttons and then some.
In a wild cross between weird/cosmic horror and natural disaster (should we call it Unnatural Disaster?), a freakish lightning storm upends the small town of Chapel Hill, spawning a giant snakelike monster and turning the townspeople into something akin to zombies.
Teenage Olivia is just one of a small group of survivors trying to escape the town but she seems to have a special connection to the unfolding crisis. I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish.
When a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town unleashing a monstrous and otherworldy power that threatens to break reality, Olivia will stop at nothing to find her best friend and get them to safety.
Mona Award's Bunny meets Stranger Things in this mind-bending and terrifying examination of female friendship and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love, from the Bram Stoker award winning author of Queen of Teeth.
Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower.…
An unusual hybrid of queer history, horror fiction, and memoir, Red X is about a series of disappearances from Toronto’s gay community over a 40-year period (actually over 200 years), and the efforts of surviving friends and family to find out who—or what—is responsible. Interwoven is David Demchuk’s own story as a horror writer, as a gay man, and as someone whose novel is breaching the boundaries of fiction and entering his own life.
