A teenage lady realizes her lifelong greatest associates are being seduced by a supernatural pressure, and should select between being alone and being ensnared collectively. A younger girl in a troubled relationship finds herself caught between two variations of the identical boyfriend—one risky, and one too good to be true. A lonely mom fears her younger youngster’s greatest buddy is a witch. And, within the titular novella, a brand new widow should resolve how far she’s prepared to go to steal her husband again from the useless.
From Stephanie:
I began writing brief tales after I moved again to my hometown—or relatively, to the suburbs outdoors my hometown of Philadelphia. I felt unusual and misplaced after a lifetime of dwelling in cities, and embarking on a brand new stage of life. A part of my acclimation course of was searching for the unusual, the bizarre, the haunted on this beautiful little city, and the area past. And naturally, you’ll find bizarre stuff in all places, if in case you have the best eye: energy struggles amongst babies, stairs resulting in roads that now not exist, almost forgotten histories of ghosts and hermits. I wrote about extra acquainted legends, too, like creatures stalking the New Jersey Pine Barrens and Pennsylvania’s personal miniature hominid trickster, the albatwitch. By means of all these tales crept ladies who can’t fairly determine be associates, girlfriends, wives, moms—who know one thing is mistaken, however can solely typically clarify what it’s. I’m so excited that Artemis Swenson, the artist for The Evening Parade and Different Tales, captured the environment and thriller of those tales, and created this procession of unusual figures, a nod to the damaging ghostly parade of the brand new title novella. A part of me desires to run from them, however a part of me desires to affix them. Which I feel is what the very best scary tales are all about.
In The Evening Parade and Different Tales, Stephanie Feldman revisits the mid-Atlantic’s eerie legends and settings to epxplore difficult friendships, romantic entanglements, motherhood, and grief with a deft hand, a piercing eye, and a feminist twist.
“The Evening Parade explores the horror and magic to be discovered within the mundane and the on a regular basis, inviting readers to look deeper at their very own world and uncover the marvel and terror it holds. An exquisite and easy mix of genres, unusual, haunting and beautiful – it is a assortment that can follow you lengthy after you’re performed studying.”
— AC Clever, creator of Wendy, Darling and Ballad of the Bone Street
“Stephanie Feldman is a bizarre fiction wizard. It is a excellent assortment of tales that burn proper to the chilly coronary heart of our doomed relationships, our secret fears, our horrible lonelinesses. How can we sink into or run from the mundane terrors of our on a regular basis lives? Be part of The Evening Parade, and Stephanie will present you.”
— Sam Rebelein, Stoker-nominated creator of Galloway’s Gospel
“Eerie, lovely, fierce, and stylish, The Evening Parade and Different Tales haunts. Steeped in folklore, city legend, previous magic, and horror, Feldman’s incisive prose grapples with grief, energy, and womanhood in all its varieties. From the Pine Barrens and the Jersey Satan to unknown creatures within the woods, Stephanie Feldman is a crucial voice for the weirdness of the Mid-Atlantic, and that is the uncommon assortment that calls for to be learn and reread instantly.”
— Erika Swyler, Nationwide Bestselling creator of The E book of Hypothesis
Stephanie Feldman is the creator of the novels Saturnalia, a Locus Award finalist, and The Angel of Losses, a Barnes & Noble Uncover Nice New Writers choice, Crawford Fantasy Award winner, and Mythopoeic Award finalist. She is co-editor of the multi-genre anthology Who Will Communicate for America? and her tales and essays have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Catapult Journal, Electrical Literature, Flash Fiction On-line, The Journal of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Rumpus, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Bizarre Horror, and extra. She lives outdoors Philadelphia together with her household.
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