Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there's Livia Llewellyn, an author praised for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal narratives. Lush, layered, multifaceted, and elegant, the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike, and why she has been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year's best anthologies. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh.
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Review
"In Engines of Desire, Livia Llewellyn's debut collection of short stories from 2011, reality was just another raw material to be stretched and reworked. Llewellyn's follow-up collection, Furnace, is a slightly slimmer volume, but it doesn't skimp when it comes to her distorted vision. Beautiful and hideous in the same breath, its 13 tales of erotic, surreal, existential horror pack a logic-shattering punch." --Jason Heller, NPR.org
About the Author
Livia Llewellyn is an award-nominated writer of horror, darkfantasy and erotica, whose fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean, Apex Magazine, Postscripts, NightmareMagazine, as well as numerousanthologies.Engines of Desire: Tales of Love &Other Horrors received a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award nomination for BestCollection, "Omphalos received a 2011 SJA for Best Novelette, and "Furnace" receiveda 2013 SJA nomination for Best Short Fiction. You can find her online atliviallewellyn.com.
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Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there's Livia Llewellyn, an author praised for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal narratives. Lush, layered, multifaceted, and elegant, the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike, and why she has been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year's best anthologies. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh.
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Review
"In Engines of Desire, Livia Llewellyn's debut collection of short stories from 2011, reality was just another raw material to be stretched and reworked. Llewellyn's follow-up collection, Furnace, is a slightly slimmer volume, but it doesn't skimp when it comes to her distorted vision. Beautiful and hideous in the same breath, its 13 tales of erotic, surreal, existential horror pack a logic-shattering punch." --Jason Heller, NPR.org
About the Author
Livia Llewellyn is an award-nominated writer of horror, darkfantasy and erotica, whose fiction has appeared in ChiZine, Subterranean, Apex Magazine, Postscripts, NightmareMagazine, as well as numerousanthologies. Engines of Desire: Tales of Love &Other Horrors received a 2011 Shirley Jackson Award nomination for BestCollection, "Omphalos received a 2011 SJA for Best Novelette, and "Furnace" receiveda 2013 SJA nomination for Best Short Fiction. You can find her online atliviallewellyn.com.