Fabulous Beasts: A Tor.Com Short Story

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Macmillan, Jun 17, 2015 - Fiction - 32 pages
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British Fantasy Award-winner: Best Short Fiction

Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma is a horror novelette about a strange woman living in luxury with her lover, but irrevocably tied to her childhood of deprivation and dark secrets in northwest England. The woman recalls the unravelling of the family upon her uncle's release from prison.

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About the author (2015)

Priya Sharma is a doctor who lives in the UK. Her short stories have appeared in several magazines including Black Static, Interzone, Albedo One, and Alt Hist, among work that has been anthologized in various Best ofs edited by Ellen Datlow, Paula Guran, Jonathan Strahan and Johnny Mains. She is very proud to be on Tor.com with "Fabulous Beasts" and "Rag and Bone".

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TitleFabulous Beasts: A Tor.Com Short Story
A Tor.Com Original
AuthorPriya Sharma
PublisherMacmillan, 2015
ISBN1466888970, 9781466888975
Length32 pages
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Fiction / Horror
  
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