The Lure of Dangerous Women

This is a collection of seven short dark fantasy tales that are beautifully written with some truly elegant prose, but at the same time are conceptually difficult and highly challenging in their themes. The stories are: "Trill" (the dark magic of the musician); "Seed" (strange taboos in an alien culture); "Seeing Stars" (a strange dystopia where hedonism reaches deadly new heights); "Animal Instinct" (a ghost story of sorts); "One-Woman Town" (terrible beauty and the sadness of song); "Forced Expiration" (a new take on the end of life) and story "The Lure of Dangerous Women" (the powerful force to possess things of beauty). Each story here is totally different but each one is interesting and stylistically original, full of strange show more atmospheres, odd tinges of dread and a tangible sense of the uncanny. The stories are full of intricately built prose and layers of allusion that is at times challenging to work through, but in the end all are highly rewarding and darkly beautiful. show less