Vacui Magia: Stories

Vacui Magia: Stories

by L.S. Johnson
Vacui Magia: Stories

Vacui Magia: Stories

by L.S. Johnson

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Overview

Winner of the North Street Book Prize
World Fantasy Award Finalist

 

L.S. Johnson's provocative first collection brings together dwarves and golems, Fates and minotaurs, murder, metamorphosis, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in eight richly-written stories. 

 

An infertile witch constructs a golem-baby to fulfill her dying mother's wish. A cafeteria worker forms an uneasy alliance with a group of possibly imaginary but nonetheless dangerous little men. An 18th century prostitute finds herself unwillingly immortalized and responds in kind. 

 

Survival, identity, and family are all explored in these poetic tales that mingle terror and sentiment, fear and love. These are stories that dance on the edge of the abyss, that lead you through darkness in search of that single gleam of hope. This is Vacui Magia.

 

"I can say without hesitation, reservation or exception that this is a collection full of brilliantly written and powerfully affecting stories, each of which profoundly impressed me in different ways . . . Johnson's Vacui Magia is a book that never goes quietly, and it is wonderful for it."  - The Future Fire Reviews

 

This deluxe ebook includes extended story notes and new cover art by renowned illustrator Jana Heidersdorf. A hardcover edition can be purchased exclusively on the author's website.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940155438892
Publisher: Traversing Z Press
Publication date: 03/08/2016
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 734 KB

Table of Contents

Little Men with Knives

Vacui Magia

The Pursuit of the Whole Is Called Love

Germinant

Vendémiaire

This Is How You Lose Yourself

Clotho

Julie

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