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: s urrealist, subversive, tragicomic. P repare 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 ''Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly . . . A modern fabulist making myths which explode into strangeness.'' Observer