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About Les Femmes Grotesques

Life is strange, beautiful, and terrible in the world of Victoria Dalpe's debut short story collection. Her characters run the gamut from nosy neighbors to boomtown prostitutes, sentient moss to ghouls with a taste for artist’s flesh. The stories contain chance encounters with truck stop mystics, haunted reality show renovations, and cat people roaming the western plains. In Dalpe's writing, horror mixes with humor, and the ordinary with the macabre. Les Femmes Grotesques is a unique and lush reading experience. Tragic and transformative—an unabashed exploration of the dark feminine.

Praise

"The sharp, pointedly-observed, disquieting stories in Les Femmes Grotesques live in our modern in-between spaces. After reading them, they'll take root and tendril within your own in-between spaces. There's nothing you can do about it." —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers Club 

“Dalpe’s horror stories are equal parts intriguing, compelling, and appropriately macabre. Les Femmes Grotesques tidily secures Dalpe her position as an author to watch.”  —Monica S. Kuebler, Rue Morgue

“Anne Rice for the post-Twilight age.” —Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson and Sunburst Award-winning author of Experimental Film

"Hungry horror fans take note: like a box of poisoned petit fours, Dalpe's collection delights and sickens with every bite." —Molly Tanzer, author of Creatures of Will and Temper

Product Details
Les Femmes Grotesques 
By Victoria Valpe
ISBN-10 ‏ 1955904235
Published by CLASH Books –  November 1, 2022