Happy Halloween! This year we are sharing this group of unsettling, spooky reads to add to your fright-filled reading lists. The works range in how they dismay or frighten, but there’s no doubt you’ll find something that guides a chill up your spine when you crack one of theirs. The following five books cause discomfort […]
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Halloween 2021 Reading List ????
There are only two days left until Halloween! Embrace the season with this handpicked selection of gory, haunted, uncanny, weird, and downright spooky reads. Ranging from horror to the horror-inspired, creepy to the creepy-adjacent, this list touches on a diverse array of subjects from disability, to the creative process, to sisterhood, to the pitfalls of […]
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We have a confession: we’re slightly fanatical about Halloween.
Continue readingThe Short List: 8 Recommended Short Story Collections
May is Short Story Month. We’re big readers of the short story form: Alice Munro, Anton Chekhov, Flannery O’Connor, George Saunders, Angela Carter and Jhumpa Lahiri are just a few of our favourite short story writers. We’re also proud to publish several authors who write fresh, vibrant and compelling short fiction. As a wrap up […]
Continue reading‘Being alive is hella complex and I want art that reflects that!’: In Conversation with Mat Laporte
RATS NEST, the long-awaited debut book by Mat Laporte is a mysterious and sometimes hallucinogenic sci-fi short story collection that builds a narrative out of the complexity and dialectical uncertainty that many people feel about being alive in the 21st century. RATS NEST introduces readers to a protoplasmic, fantastical underworld, as navigated by a self-reproducing […]
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