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Wiki: "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even."

Wiki: "That vamp had once worked as a taxi-dancer in the world's largest nightclub in Osaka, appropriately named ‘The Universe’."

Wiki: "So, these are the treasures he has left us – an entry from Oswald's Historic Diary, a much-thumbed reproduction of Magritte's “Annunciation”, and the mass numbers of the first twelve radioactive nuclides."

Word: "Beside him the young woman leaned against his shoulder, her grey eyes surveying Talbot with an almost minatory calm."

1. adj. Expressing, uttering, or conveying a threat; also, of the nature of a threat or menace; threatening, menacing.

Wiki: " Max Ernst's paintings run through The Atrocity Exhibition, in particular ‘The Eye of Silence’ and ‘Europe After the Rain.’"

Wiki: "He lit a gold-tipped cigarette, noticing that a photograph of Talbot had been cleverly montaged over a reproduction of Dali's ‘Hypercubic Christ.’ "

Wiki: "The core identity is Traven, a name taken consciously from B. Traven, a writer I've always admired for his extreme reclusiveness – so completely at odds with the logic of our own age, when even the concept of privacy is constructed from publicly circulating materials."

Wiki: "As Catherine Austin walked around the converted gymnasium these bizarre images, with their fusion of Eniwetok and Luna Park..."

Word: "... of the plump and luxurious businessmen of the Foundation, with their lush and flagitious mistresses."

1. Of persons: Guilty of or addicted to atrocious crimes; deeply criminal, extremely wicked.

2. Of actions, character, principles, etc.: Extremely wicked or criminal: heinous, villainous.

23. The Sand Camel, 2 stars. Mischievous children animate a nasty butter golem, it makes off with their sweet goth grandma.
24. Mr. Gregory’s Fly, 3 stars. Wannabe sly guy tries to put one over on a midwife, now he looks even uglier naked.
25. Jemima and the Wolf, 3 stars. Defiant teenager loves feeding her animals little heads, has a crush on a wolfman.

20. The Happy Corpse Story, 3 stars. Whiny youth is in love, listens to a dead body's story about its father.
21. How to Start a Pharmaceuticals Business, 3 stars. Woman wins the lottery, receives a tiny dead body with medicinal properties.
22. My Mother Is a Cow, 3 stars. Woman dances in public, man scolds her clumsiness, cryptic mother remains unhelpful.

Wiki: "I’ve consulted Dr. Major-Magician, who assured me aches and pains are purely psychological, and advised me to wear pants lined with monkey skin, tanned in pulque."

13. ■■■White Rabbits, 4 stars. [2018]
14. Waiting, 3 stars. Lovelorn woman doesn't resist being bustled around by a blonde lady with two dogs, makes no attempt to pet them.
15. The Seventh Horse, 3 stars. Unpleasant woman and friend find a creature tangled in brambles, refuse to free it.
16. The Neutral Man, 2 stars. Woman attends a party with a painted face, gets handed a nasty hunk of pork from a priest.

10. Monsieur Cyril de Guindre, 3 stars. Wealthy recluse is disturbed by his neglected daughter's return, accompanied by a priest.
11. The Sisters, 3 stars. Woman is distracted by a visit from her lover, forgets to lock her monstrous bloodthirsty sister in the attic.
12. Cast Down by Sadness, 3 stars. Thirsty person asks a flirtatious old woman for a drink of water, is unwilling witness to a creepy family tableau.

07. As They Rode Along the Edge, 3 stars. Forest witch takes a lover, faces dire consequences for rebuffing a self-aggrandizing saint.
08. Pigeon, Fly!, 3 stars. Artist is summoned to paint a portrait of a dead woman, later snoops in her room and reads her diary.
09. The Three Hunters, 3 stars. Sharing whiskey with a stranger, awkward family dinner with three cursed brothers.

Wiki: "He was wearing a hunting jacket the colour of Damascus rose, a bright green hat with orange plumes, and very long black boots trimmed with summer flowers."

04. A Man in Love, 3 stars. Melon thief listens to a sob story to avoid prosecution, romance is hatching eggs from your lover's corpse(?).
05. Uncle Sam Carrington, 3 stars. Girl goes looking for a way to save her mother from the shame of having eccentrics in the family, meets a helpful horse.
06. The House of Fear, 3 stars. Accepting an acquaintance's invite to a party leads to an awkward evening at a castle.

01. The Debutante, 4 stars. Young girl dreads going to her ball, her bestie the stinky hyena swaps places with her.
02. The Oval Lady, 3 stars. Stranger invites themselves into a fancy home, witnesses a domestic disagreement between father and daughter.
03. The Royal Summons, 3 stars. Friend of the queen reluctantly agrees to play for the chance to assassinate her, wins because everyone else cheated.

Art: "I like to imagine her drifting through the vast echoey passageways of Crookhey Hall, the “lavatory gothic” mansion she lived in until she was ten, her feet hovering just inches above the ground and her dark Celtic hair spreading wildly around her small white face..."

Oh hell naw

Wiki: "Old and new kimonos with volute patterns, conches, snail shells, ammonite fossils..."

Word: "It’s just that everything in it looks furfuraceous, like the skin of some diseased albino animal, as if everything is made of barely attached bleached Bran Flakes."

1. Resembling bran; scurfy, scaly; in Bot. covered with bran-like scales.

14. Howard Waldrop - The Lions Are Asleep This Night, 3 stars. Young African boy is passionate about the arts, deceives his mother to get enough materials to write his own play.
15. M. Rickert - You Have Never Been Here, 4 stars. Unknown disassociated person is ill, willingly undergoes a mystery treatment in the hospital.

Wiki: "He and forty other men had been swept away when a cofferdam burst."

11. Benjamin Rosenbaum - Biographical Notes to "A Discourse on the Nature of Causality, with Air-Planes", 1 star. Fantasy writer imagines taking action during an emergency situation in an alternate reality.
12. Michael Chabon - The God of Dark Laughter, 4 stars. [2018]
13. Theodora Goss - The Rose in Twelve Petals, 3 stars. Ex-mistress curses the king's daughter, sleeping beauty from multiple perspectives.

08. Ted Chiang - Hell Is the Absence of God, 5 stars. [2014]
09. Karen Joy Fowler - Lieserl, 3 stars. Einstein ignores letters from his fiancé about their rapidly advancing daughter, distrusts her and her games.
10. Jeffrey Ford - Bright Morning, 3 stars. Author tries to hunt down a potentially cursed story he read as a child, but it always slips away from him.

05. Jonathan Lethem - Light and the Sufferer, 3 stars. Man tries (not very hard) to get his junkie brother away from New York.
06. George Saunders - Sea Oak, 3 stars. Aunt looks after her family, tries to get them out of poverty from beyond the grave.
07. Jeff VanderMeer - Exhibit H: Torn Pages Discovered in the Vest Pocket of an Unidentified Tourist, 3 stars. City guide details how to avoid antagonizing the locals.

01. Carol Emshwiller - Al, 2 stars. Male person(?) crash lands near a small art festival.
02. Bruce Sterling - The Little Magic Shop, 3 stars. Young man with no emotional attachments carefully rations a youth elixir.
03. Aimee Bender - The Healer, 3 stars. Girls with opposing fire/ice mutations live different but lonely lives, bystander intercedes.
04. Kelly Link - The Specialist's Hat, 2 stars. [2018]

Wiki: "Outside under the window were some carts and an old diligence, the wood of the roof cracked and split by the weather."

Wiki: "Cohn, I believe, took every word of “The Purple Land” as literally as though it had been an R. G. Dun report."