Furnace

Horror fiction has long celebrated and explored the twin engines driving human existence. Call them what you like: Sex and Death Love and Destruction Temptation and Terror. While many may strive to reach the extremes few authors manage to find the beauty that rests in the liminal space between these polar forces the shuddering ecstasy encased within the shock. And then there's Livia Llewellyn an author praised for her dark stirring evocative prose and disturbing personal narratives.Lush layered multifaceted and elegant the thirteen tales comprising Furnace showcase why Livia Llewellyn has been lauded by scholars and fans of weird fiction alike and why she has been nominated multiple times for the Shirley Jackson Award and included in year's best anthologies. These are exquisite stories of beauty and cruelty of pleasure and pain of hunger and of sharp teeth sinking into tender flesh.