Kirstyn McDermott

• Aug-2012
• / Horror
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I carried the bones of this story around for quite a few years before I finally stumbled upon its beating heart," explains the author. "In my head was the image of a doll house, huge and not quite right, and a woman searching desperately for somethin...

• Dec-2013
• / Horror
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An intimate, unsettling collection from award-winning author Kirstyn McDermott.A creepy wooden dog that refuses to play dead.A gifted crisis counsellor and the mysterious, melancholy girl she cannot seem to reach.A once-successful fantasy author whos...

• Jan-2016
• / Horror
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OBSESSION NEVER DIES …When Alex meets Madigan again everything changes. His childhood sweetheart is beautiful and impulsive, but there is something wrong with her. Something dangerous.Then she commits suicide.Now Alex can’t get Madigan out of his...

• Feb-2016
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Two sisters. One wish. Unimaginable consequences. Not all fairytales are for children. Antoinette and Jacqueline have little in common beyond a mutual antipathy for their paranoid, domineering mother, a bond which has united them since childhood. In ...

• Sep-2018
• / Dark Fantasy
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"Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott is a dark fantasy novelette about the fraught relationship between Snow White and her stepmother after Snow White has married the prince and has her own child. She visits her stepmother monthly promising to kill her i...

• Feb-2022
• / Dark Fantasy
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Burnt Sugar is a dark and evocative re-imagining of a classic story from the award-winning Kirstyn McDermott. Ideal for fans of Jane Yolen, Theodora Goss, and Catherynne M. Valente.Decades after the incident in the woods, Gretel has forged a good lif...

• Mar-2022
• / Fantasy
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The New Wife is a bloody tale of ghosts, vengeance, and dark curses from the award-winning Kirstyn McDermott, sure to appeal fans of Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Angela Slatter's Sourdough stories.Bluebeard's seventh wife is the first to su...

• Jul-2022
• / Fantasy
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After Midnight is a tale of royalty, bloodlines, and royal slippers from the award-winning Kirstyn McDermott, sure to appeal to fans of Catherynne M. Valente and Theodora Goss. The Queen who'd once swept up the cinders is exiled to a distant wing of ...

• Jul-2022
• / Fantasy
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Kirstyn McDermott's prose is darkly magical, insidious and insistent. Once her words get under your skin, they are there to stay. -Angela Slatter, author of All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of ThornsHard Places collects the very best of Kirstyn M...

• Aug-2022
• / Fantasy
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Braid is a dark and spellbinding reimagining of Rapunzel from the award-winning Kirstyn McDermott. Ideal for fans of Emma Donoghue, Kelly Link, and A.S. Byatt.Decades after escaping the tower, Zel makes her living as a healer and wise-woman, travelli...

• Oct-2022
• / Fantasy
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By the Moon's Good Grace is a wild and gothic re-imagining of a classic story from the award-winning Kirstyn McDermott. Ideal for fans of Kelly Link, Angela Carter, and Catherynne M. Valente. The night after the tumultuous events at her grandmother's...

• Dec-2022
• / Fantasy
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Winterbloom is a heart-breaking and fey re-imagining of a classic story from the award-winning Kirstyn McDermott. Ideal for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Kate Bernheimer, and Danielle Wood.Several years into their marriage, Beauty and her once beastly husba...

• / Dark Fantasy
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Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories: Shrine by Kirstyn McDermottWith All Her Teeth by Kali Walla...