The Secret Life of Insects

The Secret Life of Insects

Short stories

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A forensic entomologist tries to solve the inexplicable murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. A husband becomes concerned by his wife's strange behaviour, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fascination with octopi. A woman visits a witch doctor who promises to forge an unbreakable bond between her and the man of her dreams, but things go horribly awry after the man dies. And four high school friends reunite twenty years later at a class reunion and must face the long-buried truth of a demonic experience from their youth. The history of Mexico is drenched in blood, from the sacrifices of the ancient Aztecs to the bloodthirsty conquest of the Spanish to modern-day violent crime, and that legacy of violence and death pervades these stories. They blend the genres of horror and noir in inventive ways and run the gamut from chilling to weirdly unsettling to darkly fu

Book information

ISBN: 9781838171643
Publisher: Cinder House Publishing
Imprint: New Ruins
Pub date:
Edition: Short stories
DEWEY: 863.7
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 7218
Number of pages: 208
Weight: 206g
Height: 199mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 16mm