The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
A sensuous and strange horror novella full of creeping dread and delicious gore, twisting mermaid myths into something sharp, dangerous, and hungry, for fans of Christina Henry, Carmen Maria Machado and Eric LaRocca. After the murder of her husband and the fall of his empire, a mermaid and her plague doctor companion escape into the wilderness. Deep in the woods, they stumble across a village where children hunt each other for sport, sacrificing one of their own at the behest of three surgeons they call "the saints." These saints play god with their magic, harvesting the best bits of the children for themselves and piecing the sacrifices back together again. To save the children from their fates, the plague doctor must confront their past, and the mermaid must embrace the darkest parts of her true nature.
Kundenbewertungen
The Lighthouse, Plague doctor, Dr Spencer Black, Mermaid, The Resurrectionist, Cannibal Chef, Horseman, Food of the Gods, Mira Grant, Rolling in the Deep, The All-Consuming World, The Mermaid, Carmen Maria Machado, E. B. Hudspeth, Sarah Henning, The Last Supper Before Ragnarok, The Deep, Hammers on Bone, The Ghost Tree, Shea Emshaw, The Wicked Deep, A. G. Slatter, Rivers Solomon, These Deathless Bones, Sea Witch, Into the Drowning Deep, Robert Eggers, Eric LaRocca, All the Murmuring Bones, Christina Henry, Mermaids, Near the Bone, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes, selkies, The Girl in Red, A Song for Quiet, Rupert Wong, Trees Grew Because I Bled There, Her Body and Other Parties