Elana Gomel

Broschiertes Buch

Nightwood

Beschreibung

All fairy tales were history once. Ally is a Ukrainian bride who married a wealthy Californian, Carl Morris. Everything is strange in her new home: the shadowy redwoods, the peculiar neighbors, and the mystery surrounding the death of Carl's first wife. But Ally is determined to leave her own tragic past behind and to be a good wife and a good American. Escaping darkness is not so easy, however. Ally discovers that her house is situated on the borders of Nightwood, where fairy tales become nightmares and nightmares become reality. And the ruler of Nightwood has plans of his own. When Carl is abducted by a forest monster, Ally follows him into the land where the Red, Black, and White Horsemen drag the sun in their wake. There she is taken prisoner by the ghoulish Little Mother and is forced to labor in a filthy farmyard filled with deformed human livestock. But Little Mother is not the most terrifying creature in Nightwood. The Ogre, squatting in the Castle with no Windows, is poised to invade our world. He has Carl; and he wants Ally. Unexpectedly joined by new friends, Ally escapes to embark on a perilous journey across a dying land filled with mythical beasts and creatures from fairy tales. To save Carl, Ally will have to brave the horrors of Nightwood and uncover the shattering secret of her own identity.

Autor

E LANA G OMEL has taught and researched English literature at Tel-Aviv University, Princeton, Stanford, Venice International University and the University of Hong Kong where she spent a memorable year. Since then, she has visited Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia many times, both as an academic and as a traveler, immersing herself in these countries' cultures, histories and present-day struggles. The Hungry Ones reflects her fascination with Asian cityscapes and dreamscapes. She is the author of four academic books, including Bloodscripts: Writing the Violent Subject (2003), Postmodern Science Fiction and Temporal Imagination (2010), and Alien Encounters, and the Ethics of Posthumanism: Beyond the Golden Rule London (2014). In 2009 she published The Pilgrim Soul: Being Russian in Israel, which is one of the first comprehensive treatments of the subject. She is the author of more than 40 fantasy, horror and science fiction stories, that appeared in New Horizons, The Fantasist, Timeless Tales, The Singularity, New Realms, Alien Dimensions, and many other magazines; and in several anthologies, including People of the Book, Ink Stains, Zion's Fiction, and Apex Book of World Science Fiction. Her story "In the Moment" won second place in the 2009 Short Story Competition of the British Fantasy Society. Her fantasy novel A Tale of Three Cities was published in 2013, and her standalone novella "Dreaming the Dark" came out in 2017.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Crystal Lake Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9781957133249
• ISBN-10: 1957133244
• Artikelnr.: 67314569