Description
The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House-Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides.
Dalia, the old keeper's protegee, must take up her duties, locking and unlocking the little drawers in which Anatema keeps her memories. And if she can unravel the crime that led to her predecessor's execution, Dalia might just be able to survive long enough to grow into her new role.
But there's a gaping hole in Dalia's plan that she refuses to see: Anatema cannot resist a beautiful woman, and she eventually devours every single bride that crosses her path.
The Shape of Water meets Mexican Gothic in this sapphic monster romance novella wrapped in gothic fantasy trappings
About the Author
Hache Pueyo (she/her) is an Argentine-Brazilian writer and translator. She won an Otherwise Fellowship for her work with gender in speculative fiction, and her work has appeared as H. Pueyo in Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, and The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, among others. Her bilingual collection, A Study in Ugliness & Outras Historias, came out in 2022. You can find her online on hachepueyo.com or on social media (@hachepueyo).
Book Information
ISBN 9781250376633
Author Hache Pueyo
Format Hardback
Page Count 128
Imprint St Martin's Press
Publisher St Martin's Press
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 25mm
