No Love Lost

Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: Gothic tales from the mistress of the weird behind frogman-romance Mrs Caliban for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.

'Wonderful.'

Margaret Atwood

'Genius.'

Patricia Lockwood

'Remarkable.'

Joseph Heller

'Perfect.'

Max Porter ''Immensely skillful'

. Ursula K. Le Guin

'Tender, erotic, singular.'

Carmen Maria Machado

'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.'

Marlon James

'One of the greatest short story writers we have.'

The Times

'You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.'

Sunday Times After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman.

Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion.

A wife confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her own.

Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers. Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: surrealist, subversive, tragicomic. Prepare to meet what lurks beneath .

'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.'

Independent

'Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you're simply not safe until everybody else is dead . . . Brilliant.'

New Yorker

'Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. '

Guardian