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If you're new to Dead Ink, this is where we'd tell you to start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Doloriad — Missouri Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWinner of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize. In the ruins of the world, a family descended from incest clings to existence under the iron rule of their Matriarch, who dreams of starting humanity over. Gothic and strange, moving and disquieting, The Doloriad stares down humanity's unbreakable commitment to life for better or worse. There is nothing else like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExit Management — Naomi Booth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePushed onwards by the poison of ambition and haunted by losses from the past, three characters are drawn together in a catastrophe of endings. A story of class, desire, and what we're willing to do to escape the lives we came from. 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Each volume stands alone; together they form the most compelling set of craft essays in contemporary genre fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe series has won two British Fantasy Awards and shows no sign of stopping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWriting the Uncanny\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFrom M.R. James to Shirley Jackson, the Uncanny has long provided fertile ground for writers — and recent years have seen a notable resurgence in both literature and film. Contributors including Jeremy Dyson, Alison Moore, Jenn Ashworth and Catriona Ward reveal how to make fiction that lingers long after the last page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWriting the Murder\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGathering an impressive line-up of suspects, Writing the Murder asks some of the finest contemporary writers to dissect their craft and analyse the place of murder in fiction. 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Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize and the collection that confirmed Booth as one of contemporary British fiction's most powerful and original voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDead Relatives — Lucie McKnight Hardy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIris has never left the big house in the country she shares with Mammy and the servants. When The Ladies arrive, she finds that she must appease her dead relatives. Themes of motherhood and the fragile body, family dynamics and small town tensions, unusual traditions and metamorphosis run through thirteen stories that invite you behind closed doors and leave you wondering whether they should have stayed locked.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMystery Lights — Lena Valencia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAn influencer attempts to derail a viral TV marketing campaign with her violent cult following. A marriage between two ghost hunters is threatened when one of them loses her ability to see spirits. Set primarily in deserts throughout the American Southwest, Mystery Lights is a debut collection of stories about women and girls at the crossroads of mundane daily life and existential dread. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSinking Bell — Bojan Louis\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWinner of a Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. An NPR Best Book of 2022. Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism. Drawing empathetic portraits of day labourers, metalheads, motel managers and people passing through with the hope of something better somewhere else. Rooted in Diné culture, written with a poet's ear for language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFour collections. Save £10.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eBuy separately and you'd pay £40.96. 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Part visionary architect, part whirlwind of furious artistic chaos, this is a case study on what happens when obstinate obsession comes up against an unyielding society. Kafka-inflected, darkly funny, and completely singular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlood Red — Gabriela Ponce\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloguing of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. 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