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Grey Dog Commentary

Canadian speculative fiction writer Elliot Gish’s trot into horror, Grey Dog, sets her apart as a tension-building master with a bold voice and a lot to say. Gish’s wise pace and biting commentary exhilarate. Grey Dog follows 29 year old Ada Byrd, a school teacher, arriving to a new posting in a Canadian small town, where strange things happen in the woods. Ada’s journal documents a story full of queerness and crushes, unmet expectations, betrayals of friendship, miscarriages and lost children, the trials of teaching in Christian towns, witches, and the tantalizing thrill of what you’ll find in the woods.

Our Share of Night Commentary

Mariana Enriquez’s highly acclaimed novel Our Share of Night is a rich, lengthy, family saga, horror story about a young man and his inheritance: an estate, a cult, and a magical strength all his own. Set in Argentina from the 1960s to the late 1990s, just before, during, and after military dictatorship, Enriquez’s sweeping novel is a dedication to disappeared people and the violence they face, wrapped around the story of a family and the terrifying God they worship.

Her Body and Other Parties Commentary

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection Her Body and Other Parties is an ingenious read about boundaries and betrayals, queer desire and intimacy, stories with forgotten endings, strange contagions, the doubts of parenthood, invasion of the body, and our smallness in the universe.