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Twelve women. Twelve horrors disguised as love. In Anya Martin's new collection of horror tales: the consequences of a girl wishing her dog could live forever; a romantic college student wakes a gargoyle in Paris; and a lonely woman finds her house infested with insects. History's darker depths are delved in such stories as American jazz singer confronts her lover who has
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Here there be monsters.
This collection of twelve stories focuses on love and longing, loss and loneliness, leading women who yearn for something more into strange, murky depths they won’t emerge from unchanged.
I immediately fell for the hypnotic quality of Martin’s writing (and the fact that the first story features a girl who loves her dog and would do anything for him), but the range of her writing is truly a wonder—I had no idea what to expect from story to story.
Martin incorporates elements ...more
This collection of twelve stories focuses on love and longing, loss and loneliness, leading women who yearn for something more into strange, murky depths they won’t emerge from unchanged.
I immediately fell for the hypnotic quality of Martin’s writing (and the fact that the first story features a girl who loves her dog and would do anything for him), but the range of her writing is truly a wonder—I had no idea what to expect from story to story.
Martin incorporates elements ...more
I was lucky enough to receive an advance reading copy of this title, and let's just say: this collection is one of the major debuts of the year. An intoxicating blend of weird fiction, horror, and dark fantasy, SLEEPING WITH THE MONSTER is a beautiful and unnerving ode to the strange, to cinema, and to those of us weirdos searching for somewhere to belong. My personal favorite story in the book is "The Un-Bride, or No Gods and Marxists," which is a fantastic homage to Bride of Frankenstein actre
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Anya Martin's collection "Sleeping with The Monster" is a true gem of darkness and wit. A portrait of 12 women confronted with supernatural situations, it is also a masterpiece of genre and style swirling. If all the references are clear and pointed at, Anya Martin is a genius at twisting them into something completely refreshed and new that satisfies the knowing reader. Sometimes funny, sometimes poetic, sometimes plain Weird, these stories embark us into seemingly familiar narrations that sudd
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Fans of The Weird will find a lot to love in this collection. The relationship in “A Girl and Her Dog” is exceptionally crafted, and has us asking what we would be willing to give to extend the lives of our faithful companions. “Resonator Superstar!” was an interesting take on the Tillinghast resonator through the lens of recreating Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol performance art. “Sensoria” is an excellent goth-industrial Dream Cycle story with plenty of gritty Atlanta love. “Boisea trivitta
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An interesting collection of horror/weirdesk. I appreciated non-traditional themes and symbology, along with mostly empowering female characters. My personal favorites were: Resonator Superstar!, Boisea Trivittata, Sensoria, and Grass.
I still feel a little unclear on how much I enjoyed this. Some stories felt much stronger than others, to the point that it became distracting. Maybe the author was able to workshop certain ones a bit more? Whatever the case, if you're already a fan of this genre, ...more
I still feel a little unclear on how much I enjoyed this. Some stories felt much stronger than others, to the point that it became distracting. Maybe the author was able to workshop certain ones a bit more? Whatever the case, if you're already a fan of this genre, ...more
Anya writes story like Amanda Palmer writes songs. For all the normies who are going, 'Amanda who?', I mean that she can be playful and brutally open at the same time. She puts a lot of herself on the page, which, in this day and age, is a brave and beautiful thing. It's refreshing because it comes across that she's writing for the story, not for a genre, or to please an editor, or a target audience, and it's liberating. This anthology ranges from different points of her career, some were publis
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ANYA MARTIN’s debut collection, Sleeping with the Monster, is coming autumn 2018 from Lethe Press. Her novella Grass, illustrated by Jeanne D'Angelo, was a Dim Shores limited edition chapbook, and her play Passage to the Dreamtime, illustrated by Kim Bo Jung, was published by Dunhams Manor Press. Her fiction has appeared in anthologies and magazines including Tales from a Talking Board, Looming Lo
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