Advance praise for ‘Skein and Bone’

I’m in the formatting and typesetting phase of production for V.H. Leslie’s ‘Skein and Bone,’ and am getting very excited about its release. I thought I’d share some advance praise.

 

Advance praise for Skein and Bone:

 

“The strange and vivid worlds in V.H. Leslie’s stories have a nightmarish fairy tale quality to them – a pantry full of secrets, nursery wallpaper whose pattern resembles ‘a forest of umbilical cords’, a crinoline petticoat ‘like an enormous birdcage’. An absorbing and gorgeously unsettling collection.”

Alison Moore, Author of The Lighthouse (Short-Listed for the Man Booker Prize)

 

“A delicate and considered approach to richly imaginative stories.”

Adam Nevill, Author of No One Gets Out Alive

 

“Tales of quiet unease, enigmatic, beautifully told, varied and darkly poetic. Your trepidation with a V.H. Leslie story is not that you might be disappointed but rather the thrill of just how good it is going to be.”

Stephen Volk, Author of Whitstable

 

“V.H. Leslie’s fiction builds in intensity, but at the same time possesses a strange, silky kind of calm. Like a spider, she constructs delicate webs, and she lures you in with elegant, oblique writing. There is an almost unbearable patience to her stories, and, in the best possible sense, a horrible inevitability that shivers within them.”

Conrad Williams, Author of The Unblemished