You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories

World Fantasy Award nominee 2016.

Scalding and dark, these stories remind us of the price of politics, the costs we all pay, knowing and not.

The body of this book is built on hard, political stories that encompass the gentle wisdom of the ages. There is cruelty and love. War and regeneration. Rickert has long been an undiscovered master of the short story and this survey collection, including new work, will bring her to a wide, astonished audience. Rickert’s first collection, Map of Dreams, received the Crawford and World Fantasy awards and stories in this collection have received the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards.

Contents:

• Memoir of a Deer Woman
• Journey into the Kingdom
• The Shipbuilder
• Cold Fires
• The Corpse Painter’s Masterpiece
• The Christmas Witch
• Holiday
• The Chambered Fruit
• The Mothers of Voorhisville
• You Have Never Been Here