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Furnace
Furnace | Livia Llewellyn
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Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes, few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces, the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there's Livia Llewellyn, an author praised for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal narratives. Lush, layered, multifaceted, and elegant, the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike, and why she has been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year's best anthologies. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh.
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khooliha
Furnace | Livia Llewellyn
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Really enjoyed this collection! This is the Weird Fiction vibe I like.

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Michael_Gee
Furnace | Livia Llewellyn
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In these 13 stories, there is a theme of characters consumed by a larger force and that can be horrifying and/or erotic. At its best, this collection is original, complex, scary, and luxuriates in language. It can also seem florid and obfuscatory. Favorite words (“obsidian,” “saurian,” “antediluvian,” “cunt”) beat a familiar rhythm and establish a territory. Several stories are better upon re-reading. Skip the first and last stories.

Michael_Gee Painting: Reginald Marsh “Show Window” (1934). St. Louis art museum. 5y
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esurient
Furnace | Livia Llewellyn
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Pick! "The Low, Dark Edge of Life" by Livia Llewellyn.

Why hallo, new Lovecraftian horror story; I shall read you.

#notthetaggedbook #shortwork

http://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/low-dark-edge-life/

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ohyeahthatgirl
Furnace | Livia Llewellyn
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DNFed a book that was only OK to pick up something in my comfort zone, weird horror. It's always soothing to read something more terrifying than real life. #smallpress #weirdatlast #selfcarethenriot

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Ethereallad
Furnace | Livia Llewellyn

The sensuality of Anais Nin meets the cosmic horror of Lovecraft in Llewelyn's exquisitely crafted stories.

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