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Furnace by livia llewellyn6/11/2023 This Is Horror readers may be familiar with the Shirley Jackson Award nominated story ‘Furnace’, which also appeared in The Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume 1. Livia Llewellyn is one of the best short story writers to make her mark in the last few years, with a rapidly growing body of work that is both subtle and disturbing. These are exquisite stories, of beauty and cruelty, of pleasure and pain, of hunger, and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh. 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. And then there’s Livia Llewellyn, an author praised for her dark, stirring, evocative prose and disturbing, personal narratives. 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. Call them what you like: Sex and Death, Love and Destruction, Temptation and Terror. Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Look Out For… Furnace by Livia Llewellyn “Livia Llewellyn’s stories generate an almost visceral sense of unease.”
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