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The Carnivorous Lamb
AgustĂn GĂłmez Arcos
The latest in the Little Sister’s Classics series resurrecting gay and lesbian literary a viciously funny, shocking yet ultimately moving 1975 novel, an allegory of Franco’s Spain, about a young gay man (the self-described “carnivorous lamb”) coming of age with a mother who despises him, a father who ignores him, and a brother who loves him. Author Agustin Gomez-Arcos left his native Spain for France in the 1960s to escape its censorship policies. The Carnivorous Lamb , originally written in French, won the Prix Hermes, and this, its 1984 English translation, was widely acclaimed.
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Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
Tamsyn Muir
When the witch built the forty-flight tower, she made very sure to do the whole thing properly. Each flight contains a dreadful monster, ranging from a diamond-scaled dragon to a pack of slavering goblins. Should a prince battle his way to the top, he will be rewarded with a golden sword—and the lovely Princess Floralinda.
But no prince has managed to conquer the first flight yet, let alone get to the fortieth.
In fact, the supply of fresh princes seems to have quite dried up.
And winter is closing in on Floralinda…
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The Starving Saints
Caitlin Starling
From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing, intensely atmospheric fever dream of medieval horror.
Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration.
Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle, a serving girl, Treila, is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar’s walls.
As the castle descends into bacchanalian madness—forgetting the massed army beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasy—these three women are the only ones to still see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the castle’s new masters… or each other; and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring violence to the surface. To save the castle, and themselves, will take a reimagining of who they are, and a reorganization of the very world itself.
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Bloom
Delilah S. Dawson
A sweet sapphic romance takes a deadly dark turn in this sharp-as-a-knife novella from the New York Times bestselling author.
Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers’ market. Ash—precise, pretty, and practically perfect—sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro has never felt this way about another woman; with Ash, she wants to be her and have her in equal measure. But as her obsession with Ash consumes her, she may find she’s not the one doing the devouring…
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The Corner That Held Them
Sylvia Townsend Warner
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey to the ambitions, squabbles, jealousies, and pleasures of less spiritual environments. An outbreak of the Black Death, the collapse of the convent spire, the Bishop's visitation, and a nun's disappearance are interwoven with the everyday life of the nuns, novices, and prioresses in this marvelous imagined history of a 14th-century nunnery.
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The Italian
Ann Radcliffe
From the first moment Vincentio di Vivaldi, a young nobleman, sets eyes on the veiled figure of Ellena, he is captivated by her enigmatic beauty and grace. But his haughty and manipulative mother is against the match and enlists the help of her confessor to come between them. Schedoni, previously a leading figure of the Inquisition, is a demonic, scheming monk with no qualms about the task, whether it entails abduction, torture - or even murder. The Italian secured Ann Radcliffe's position as the leading writer of Gothic romance of the age, for its atmosphere of supernatural and nightmarish horrors, combined with her evocation of sublime landscapes and chilling narrative.
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Carmilla
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest – the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion.
But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented by nightmares and growing weaker by the day… Pre-dating Dracula by twenty-six years, Carmilla is the original vampire story, steeped in sexual tension and gothic romance.
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Thoughts from 13% (page 101)
„Die Zuspitzung auf das weibliche Geschlecht war eine Zutat des Hexenhammers, der eines der frauenfeindlichsten Bücher der Weltliteratur darstellt.“
Die ersten 100 Seiten zur historischen Einordnung und der generellen Wirkungsgeschichte des Hexenhammers sind stark geschrieben und unglaublich interessant. Super spannend, dass Kramers Fanatismus bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten auch bei Geistlichen auf Widerstand gestoĂźen bzw. direkt abgelehnt worden ist.
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Der Hexenhammer. Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer
Das unheilvollste Buch der Weltliteratur?
Der ›Malleus Maleficarum‹, deutsch ›Der Hexenhammer‹, Erstdruck 1487, steht am Beginn der blutigen Epoche der europäischen Hexenverfolgungen. Als Handbuch der Hexenjäger zählt er zu den verhängnisvollsten Büchern der Weltliteratur. Nicht zuletzt deswegen ist er auch heute noch ein Basistext zum Verständnis der abendländischen Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte. Seit langem galt die 1902 erschienene Übersetzung des lateinischen Originaltextes als unzulänglich, wenn auch unentbehrlich. Mit dieser Ausgabe liegt nun nach fast hundert Jahren erstmals eine lesbare, übersichtlich gestaltete und wissenschaftlich verlässliche Neuübertragung aus dem Lateinischen vor. Die Kommentierung wichtiger Belegstellen und der Nachweis der Beispiele aus historisch dokumentierten Hexenverfolgungen erleichtern den Zugang. Herausgeber und Übersetzer haben dabei den neuesten internationalen Forschungsstand einbezogen. Damit können immer noch verbreitete falsche Vorstellungen über Ausmaß, Zeitraum und Charakter der Hexenverfolgungen endlich zurechtgerückt werden.
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Der Hexenhammer. Malleus Maleficarum
Heinrich Kramer
Das unheilvollste Buch der Weltliteratur?
Der ›Malleus Maleficarum‹, deutsch ›Der Hexenhammer‹, Erstdruck 1487, steht am Beginn der blutigen Epoche der europäischen Hexenverfolgungen. Als Handbuch der Hexenjäger zählt er zu den verhängnisvollsten Büchern der Weltliteratur. Nicht zuletzt deswegen ist er auch heute noch ein Basistext zum Verständnis der abendländischen Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte. Seit langem galt die 1902 erschienene Übersetzung des lateinischen Originaltextes als unzulänglich, wenn auch unentbehrlich. Mit dieser Ausgabe liegt nun nach fast hundert Jahren erstmals eine lesbare, übersichtlich gestaltete und wissenschaftlich verlässliche Neuübertragung aus dem Lateinischen vor. Die Kommentierung wichtiger Belegstellen und der Nachweis der Beispiele aus historisch dokumentierten Hexenverfolgungen erleichtern den Zugang. Herausgeber und Übersetzer haben dabei den neuesten internationalen Forschungsstand einbezogen. Damit können immer noch verbreitete falsche Vorstellungen über Ausmaß, Zeitraum und Charakter der Hexenverfolgungen endlich zurechtgerückt werden.
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Boys in the Valley
Philip Fracassi
St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys.
Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania.
Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches adulthood, he has friends, a future... a family.
Then, late one stormy night, a group of men arrive at their door, one of whom is badly wounded, occult symbols carved into his flesh. His death releases an ancient evil that spreads like sickness, infecting St. Vincent's and the children within. Soon, boys begin acting differently, forming groups. Taking sides.Others turn up dead.Now Peter and those dear to him must choose sides of their own, each of them knowing their lives — and perhaps their eternal souls — are at risk.
The Exorcist meets Lord of the Flies, by way of Midnight Mass, in Boys in the Valley, a brilliant coming-of-age tale from award-winning author Philip Fracassi.
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Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery
Brom Brom
Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it.
A spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger – only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, Abitha fights for what little freedom she can grasp onto, while trying to stay true to herself and her past.
Enter Slewfoot, a powerful spirit of antiquity newly woken ... and trying to find his own role in the world. Healer or destroyer? Protector or predator? But as the shadows walk and villagers start dying, a new rumor is whispered: Witch.
Both Abitha and Slewfoot must swiftly decide who they are, and what they must do to survive in a world intent on hanging any who meddle in the dark arts.
Complete with 8 pages of Brom’s mesmerizing full-color artwork and chapter illustrations throughout, his latest book is sure to delight.
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Bone of My Bone
Johanna van Veen
Bram Stoker Award–nominee and USA Today bestseller Johanna van Veen unveils a sapphic folk-horror tour de force—perfect for fans of The VVitch and The Salt Grows Heavy. A skull's grin is eternal…
The year is 1635.
Sister Ursula, a young nun fleeing the ruins of her convent, and Elsebeth, a sharp-witted peasant, escape a band of marauding soldiers and disappear into the Bavarian forest. War scorches the land, and no one survives it alone. Amid the devastation, they find something in the arms of a dying the gilded skull of a saint.
It is said that if you reunite the saint's skull with her body, a wish will be granted. Desperate for salvation, and each with secret desires of their own, Ursula and Elsebeth follow a ragged map across the blighted countryside. But darkness follows them. A necromancer, drawn to the relic's power. The saint herself, whispering at night. And as the lines between blessing and curse blur, the women must face a harrowing the magic they seek comes at a cost.
At the journey's end, they'll face an impossible choice—one that could tear apart everything they know… or bind them to each other forever.
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The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
Alexis Henderson
A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut.
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement.
But a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still lurking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the journal of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood.
Fascinated by the secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her.
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