From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save usor go monstrously wrong.The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secretsand their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriendand finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcasts, a vampire and a goat woman, find solace in each other, even as the worlds lack of understanding might bring about its own end.In these lush, strange, beautifully written stories, GennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamonddark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beast, and make you beg to have your heart broken.

Binding: Paperback;208 pages; Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Classification: FM; Weight: 398 g; Dimensions: 131 x 203 x 30

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