No Love Lost

<b>Introduced by Patricia Lockwood: </b><b>Gothic tales from the </b><b>mistress</b><b> of the weird behind frogman-romance </b><i><b>Mrs Caliban </b></i><b>for fans of Shirley Jackson, Lucia Berlin and Patricia Highsmith.</b><br><br>'Wonderful.' <b>Margaret Atwood</b><br>'Genius.' <b>Patricia Lockwood</b><br>'Remarkable.' <b>Joseph Heller</b><br>'Perfect.'<b> Max Porter</b><br><b></b>''Immensely skillful'<b>. Ursula K. Le Guin</b><br>'Tender, erotic, singular.' <b>Carmen Maria Machado</b><br>'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' <b>Marlon James</b><br>'One of the greatest short story writers we have.' <i><b>The Times</b></i><br>'You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.' <i><b>Sunday Times</b></i><br><br><b>After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman.</b><br><b>Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion.</b><br><b>A wife confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her own.</b><br><b>Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers.</b><br><b>Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: s</b><b>urrealist, subversive, tragicomic. P</b><b>repare to meet what lurks beneath .</b><br><br>'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.' <i><b>Independent</b></i><br><br>'Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you're simply not safe until everybody else is dead . . . Brilliant.' <i><b>New Yorker</b></i><br><br>'Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. ' <i><b>Guardian</b></i><br><br>'Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly . . . A modern fabulist making myths which explode into strangeness.' <i><b>Observer</b></i>