"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
Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors: SSC
โ Scribed by Livia Llewellyn
- Publisher
- Lethe Press
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- Maple Shade, NJ
- ISBN-13
- 9781590213247
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ 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.
โฆ Subjects
Erotic stories, American;Fantasy fiction, American;Horror tales, American;Fiction
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