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Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors

โœ Scribed by Livia Llewellyn


Publisher
Lethe Press
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
173 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781590213247

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โœฆ Synopsis


"In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes 'Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain.' An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshiping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen-year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge the reader's sensibilities, their fears and desires."--Page 4 of cover.;Love, sex, and the heat death of the universe / by Laird Barron -- Horses -- At the edge of Ellensburg -- Teslated Salishan evergreen -- The engine of desire -- Jetsam 85 -- The four hundred thousand -- Brimstone orange -- Take your daughters to work -- Omphalos -- Her deepness.


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