Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

From the author of the breakout novel Thistlefoot: a collection of dark fairytales and fractured folklore exploring how our passions can save usΓÇöor go monstrously wrong. The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning,clawingravenous yearning: the hunger to be heldand seenand known. And the terrortoo: to be loved too wellor not enoughor for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheartto their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are. Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal Staircase explore its secretsΓÇöand their own doomed summer love. A zombie rooster plays detective in a missing persons case. A woman moves into a new house with her acclaimed artist boyfriendΓÇöand finds her body slowly shifting into something specially constructed to accommodate his needs and whims. A pack of middle schoolers turn to the occult to rid themselves of a hated new classmate. And a pair of outcastsa vampire and a goat womanfind solace in each othereven as the world’s lack of understanding might bring about its own end. In these lushstrangebeautifully written storiesGennaRose Nethercott explores human longing in all its diamond-dark facets to create a collection that will redefine what you see as a beastand make you beg to have your heart broken.