Books like Cursed Bunny
Korean stories that mix folklore, body horror and capitalist dread: a cursed lamp shaped like a rabbit, a head that rises out of a toilet, a woman whose body turns strange, all told with a sly, deadpan cruelty.
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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Stories featuring old vampires who quench their thirst with lemons in an Italian grove, seagulls that steal things from a boy's future, American presidents reincarnated as horses and girls in a Japanese silk mill turning into silkworms.
Salt Slow
Nine stories of bodies changing in strange ways, from a girl whose skin begins to peel away to a city where people's sleep wanders off without them.
The Vegetarian
A Korean woman stops eating meat, and her quiet refusal escalates into a crisis that consumes her family and transforms her body into something inhuman.
Her Body and Other Parties
Eight genre-bending stories about women's bodies, from a wife who will not let her husband untie the green ribbon at her neck to a woman who sees the ghosts of murdered girls while recapping Law & Order: SVU.
Orange World
Stories about a new mother nursing a demon, climate-changed worlds, and the strange arrangements people make with dread.
Thin Places
Chronister's first collection of dark fables, in which women and girls find the borders between the ordinary world and the other one wearing thin.
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Twelve horror stories from Argentina where the dead don't stay dead, children vanish on purpose, and the gothic lurks in everyday Buenos Aires.
Things We Lost in the Fire
Twelve stories set in and around Buenos Aires, where the disappeared of the dictatorship, abandoned houses, slum children and women who set themselves on fire make up a city that is haunted in plain sight.
Bliss Montage
Eight surreal stories about women in flight from the past: one lives in a house with her husband and all of her ex-boyfriends, another takes a drug that makes her disappear.
Uzumaki
In the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho, teenager Kirie Goshima watches her neighbours become obsessed with spirals, starting with her boyfriend's father, as the pattern takes hold of the town in ever stranger and more horrible ways.
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
A man who helps strangers end their lives narrates the stories of the clients and lovers he has known in a cool, cinematic novel of 1990s Seoul.
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Bender's first collection of short, strange fables, among them a man whose lover is going through reverse evolution and a girl with a hand made of fire.