No Love Lost: The Selected Novellas of Rachel Ingalls, Introduced by Patricia Lockwood

'Wonderful.' - Margaret Atwood 'Genius.' - Patricia Lockwood 'Remarkable.' - Joseph Heller 'Perfect.' - Max Porter 'Immensely skillful' - Ursula K. Le Guin 'Tender, erotic, singular.' - Carmen Maria Machado 'Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.' - Marlon James 'One of the greatest short story writers we have.' - The Times 'You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.' - Sunday Times After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman. Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion. A wife confiscates her husband's homemade sex doll, only to demand her own. Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers. Rachel Ingalls' incomparable novellas are masterpieces: surrealist, subversive, tragicomic. Prepare to meet what lurks beneath. 'Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.' - Independent '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.' - New Yorker 'Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. ' Guardian'Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly . . . A modern fabulist making myths which explode into strangeness.' - Observer