Kirstyn McDermott Libri

"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 Thorns Hard Places collects the very best of Kirstyn McDermott's short fiction written over the past twenty years along with a previously unpublished novella. From unsettling obsessions and brutal body horror to unexpected monsters and ghosts drifting through suburbia, these stories run the gamut of horror and the contemporary gothic. By turns harrowing, provocative and poignant, this collection will haunt you long after the last page is turned.

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 the aftermath of a savage betrayal, Antoinette lands on her sister’s doorstep bearing a suitcase and a broken heart. But Jacqueline, the ambitious would-be manager of a trendy Melbourne art gallery, has her own problems – chasing down a delinquent painter in the sweltering heat of a Brisbane summer. Abandoned, armed with a bottle of vodka and her own grief-spun desires, Antoinette weaves a dark and desperate magic that can never, ever be undone. Their lives swiftly unravelling, the two sisters find themselves drawn into a tangle of lies, manipulations and the most terrible of family secrets. The Aurealis and Australian Shadows award-winning novel by the author of Madigan Mine and Caution: Contains Small Parts.

The third novella in Kirstyn McDermott's Never Afters series. A dark, powerful retelling of Cinderella focused on what happens after the familiar story is over.

Horrorfans werden diesen Thriller mit seinen unglaublichen Wendungen verschlingen! In der Tiefe seiner Seele hat Alex sich Madigans Tod gewünscht. Doch erst als seine egozentrische Ex Selbstmord begeht, begreift er, dass er mit ihr die Liebe seines Lebens verloren hat. Aber warum beginnt er, im Kopf plötzlich Madigans Stimme zu hören? Woher kommen seine seltsamen Blackouts? Und welche Verbin dung hatte Madigan zu den geheimnisvollen 'Söhnen des Belials'? Alex findet heraus, was wirklich in jener Nacht geschehen ist, als Madigan ihn fast umgebracht hätte. Und ihm wird klar, dass er seitdem in seinem Körper nicht mehr allein ist.