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Francine Toon

    Francine Toon creëert poëzie die duikt in de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen individuen en de wereld die zij bewonen. Haar stijl is vaak lyrisch en introspectief, gericht op de subtiele details en delicate nuances van emoties. Toon is toegewijd aan het vastleggen van vluchtige momenten en diepe gevoelens die onze ervaringen vormen. Haar werk wordt gewaardeerd om zijn gevoeligheid en zijn inzichtelijke verkenning van de menselijke psyche.

    Pine
    Of the Flesh
    • Of the Flesh

      A spine-chilling new collection of short horror stories from bestselling authors including Lucy Rose, Emilia Hart and Bridget Collins

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      'Outstandingly weird and memorable' GUARDIAN 'Deliciously creepy' NEW SCIENTIST Fear never dies... Featuring stories from Susan Barker, J K Chukwu, Bridget Collins, Mariana Enríquez, Michel Faber, Lewis Hancox, Emilia Hart, Ainslie Hogarth, Robert Lautner, Adorah Nworah, Irenosen Okojie, Lucy Rose, Lionel Shriver, James Smythe, Lavie Tidhar, Francine Toon, Evie Wyld and Louisa Young. These stories from eighteen master storytellers will curdle your blood, haunt your dreams and redefine terror. From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor in his new home country; from a new home with a sinister secret, to the discovery that a long-dead parent's corpse is perfectly preserved decades later; this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors. READERS ARE OBSESSED 'Stunning' 'Well-plotted and horrifying' 'Visceral, creepy, gory... stays in your head long after reading them' 'It's so satisfying to turn to the next story in an anthology like this and be pretty confident it's going to be a banger... bravo' 'Spine-tingling... I was gripped and it kept me up at night as I just wanted to read one more story' 'Often unusual, always unique... a wildly eclectic cornucopia of horror'

      Of the Flesh2025
      3,3
    • Pine

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      "Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she's gone. In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries like these are not out of the ordinary. The trapper found hanging with the dead animals for two weeks. Locked doors and stone circles. The disappearance of Lauren's mother a decade ago. Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father's turbulent mind. Neighbours know more than they let on, but when local teenager Ann-Marie goes missing it's no longer clear who she can trust."

      Pine2020
      3,4