Books like 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.
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Orange World
Stories about a new mother nursing a demon, climate-changed worlds, and the strange arrangements people make with dread.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Debut stories populated by werewolf-girl boarding schools, Minotaur cowboys, and sleep-disordered children in Florida swamps.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Get in Trouble
Nine stories in which ordinary people meet the uncanny, from a girl who keeps house for the uncanny summer people up the hill to a fading star of vampire movies filming a ghost-hunting show.
Magic for Beginners
Stories set in a world one step to the side of this one: a convenience store that zombies visit at night, a handbag with a whole village inside it, and a group of friends obsessed with a pirate TV show that may be watching them back.
Pure Colour
In a world presented as God's first draft, Mira studies art criticism, falls for a woman named Annie, and after her father dies finds that her spirit has passed into a leaf, alongside his.
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.
Don't Look Now
Stories of grief, premonition, and dread, including the title novella of a couple haunted by their dead child in Venice.
The Doll: The Lost Short Stories
Early stories du Maurier wrote in her twenties and lost for decades, including the title story of a young man's obsession with a mysterious violinist.