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**2022 World Fantasy Award Finalist** **2021 Foreword INDIES Silver medal for Short Stories** **One of Largehearted Boy's Favorite Short Story Collections of 2021** "A marvel of storytelling filled with delicious surprises." - Sharma Shields What if Captain Hook gave up marauding and took a gig at the Post Office? How did Hamlet's uncle Claudius become such a rat? What might happen if a plastic surgeon fell for Medusa? If Moby Dick could write a letter, what would he say to Ahab? The answers to these and many other questions can be found in TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME, winner of the 2020 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction. These twelve stories examine the possible lives of such classic literary villains as Professor Moriarty, Shere Khan, Rumpelstiltskin, Polyphemus, Mrs. Danvers and others, while illuminating the consumptive nature of love, the crushing weight of isolation, the false promise of beauty, and the power of storytelling itself. Praise for TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME: "With empathy and wit, Jen Fawkes explores the inner lives of reviled or marginalized charactersfrom Rumpelstiltskins desire to nurture a child to Medusas struggles with dating to the heartbreaking backstory of the w

Author

Jen Fawkes

Publisher

Winston-Salem: Press 53

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781950413362