Tales the Devil Told Me
- List Price: $27.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Press 53, LLC
- Publish date: 10/05/2021
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"What if Captain Hook gave up marauding and took a gig at the post office? How did Hansel and Gretels witch develop a yen for child-flesh? If Moby Dick could write a letter, what might he say to Ahab? The answers to these and many more questions can be found in Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes, winner of the 2020 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. These twelve stories give voice to popular literary villains-Rumpelstiltskin, Iago, Medusa, Claudius, Professor Moriarty, Shere Khan, and others-while illuminating the consumptive nature of love, the crushing weight of isolation, the false promise of beauty, and the power and function of storytelling itself"--
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