She speaks to Georgina Godwin about her debut short-story collection, ‘Parallel Hells’ an anthology drawing on gothic. In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in refreshingly inventive ways to explore queer identity, love, power and the complicated nature of being human. Leon Craig is a Berlin-based, British-born writer whose work has been published in ‘The Times Literary Supplement’, ‘The White Review’ and more. Livia orchestrates a Satanic mass to distract herself from a recently remembered trauma and two lovers must resolve their differences in order to defy a lethal curse. For fans of Daisy Johnson and Kirsty Logan, a gothic short story collection for winter. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Parallel Hells.

Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. An Oxford historian, in bitter competition with the rest of her faculty members, discovers an ancient tome whose sinister contents might solve her problems. Read Parallel Hells by Leon Craig available from Rakuten Kobo. Parallel Hells - Ebook written by Leon Craig. In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far exceed its Creator's expectations a ruined mansion which grants the secret wishes of a group of revellers and a notorious murderer who discovers her. In the thirteen darkly audacious stories of Parallel Hells we meet a golem, made of clay, learning that its powers far exceed its Creator's expectations a ruined mansion which grants the secret wishes of a group of revellers and a notorious murderer who discovers her Viking husband is not what he seems.Īsta is an ancient being who feasts on the shame of contemporary Londoners, who now, beyond anything, wishes only to fit in with a group of friends they will long outlive. Some say that hell is other people and some say hell is loneliness. 'By turns unsettling, funny and fiercely intelligent, Parallel Hells is a queer carnival of monsters and masks.

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