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Playing Wolf (2025)
Zuzana Říhová
"Playing Wolf is a fascinating combination of rural creepiness and gruesome fairy tale imagery. Zuzana Rihova's prose, beautifully translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker, swirls with thoughts, paranoia, dread, and disappointment. You will cringe at the body horror, the wrong turns, the failure of the characters to see the danger before them, to escape the fairy tale they've inevitably fallen into. Gripping as it is harrowing!"
The Butcher's Daughter (2025)
Corinne Leigh Clark and David Demchuk
"A wonderfully sophisticated horror. The Butcher's Daughter is a gloomy, disgusting, and suspenseful rollercoaster ride, brought to vivid life by two exceptionally talented writers. At its heart, it is a tale about bodies - especially women's bodies - about freedom and agency, and those who wish to control other human beings down to their guts. An historical novel, yes, but very much spun from this current bloody moment. Bleak, witty, and disturbing."
Running Out of Air (2024)
Lilli Sutton
"An adventure of the limits of the human body, and of the limits of the blood bond of family. Sutton doesn't write around the hard stuff. Her novel is filled with pain, love, and real terror."
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