Monstrous Affections

David Nickle

A young bride and her future mother-in-law risk everything to escape it. A repentant father summons help from a pot of tar to ensure it. A starving woman learns from howling winds and a whispering host, just how fulfilling it can finally be.

Can it be love?

Contents:

  • Introduction by Michael Rowe
  • The Sloan Men
  • Janie and the Wind
  • Night of the Tar Baby
  • Other People's Kids
  • The Mayor Will Make A Brief Statement and then Take Questions
  • The Pit-Heads
  • Slide Trombone
  • The Inevitability of Earth
  • Swamp Witch and the Tea-Drinking Man
  • The Delilah Party
  • Fly in your Eye
  • Polyphemus' Cave
  • The Webley
Published
2009
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Author

David Nickle

David Nickle is the author of several novels and numerous short stories. His latest novel, The 'Geisters, is available from ChiZine Publications. His novel Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism was a finalist for the Aurora Award, the Sunburst Award and the Compton Crook Award. His story collection Monstrous Affections won the 2009 Black Quill Reader's Choice Award. He's a past winner of the Bram Stoker Award and Aurora Award. He lives and works in Toronto.