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Magical Tome
- First published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Nomadic Press
- Pages
- 180 pages
- ISBN
- 9780998134826
Fiercer Monsters
The outer archives are busy
About this book
Youssef Alaoui’s short-story collection, Fiercer Monsters, is concerned with the symbology of letters and the word as invocation, contrasted with the futility of language. In these stories, Alaoui presents a Neanderthal oracle, a little girl in Venezuela in the 1950s, a 19th-century hallucinating sailor, and a WWI soldier. The voices are sometimes salty, always salient. Each voice ultimately laments the fall of the tower of Babel and the resulting confusion. -- Back cover.
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Horror / Dark Elements
Romance
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