Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Jane Flett!
Writes:
Queer literary horror through a Scottish small-town lens. FREAKSLAW is the story of a travelling carnival who come to a repressed Scottish town, bringing with them the desire for chaos, seduction, and revenge.
About:
Flamboyant, maximalist troublemaker seeks fellow deviants to hold hands and plot the revolution. I’ll bring the neon lightbulbs and pagan ritual, you come with an open mind and a penchant for mayhem. Let’s make out at the top of the big wheel while the world around us burns…
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
- unbridledlove of metaphors
- strong stomach for body horror
- queer at heart
- soft spot for unrepentant teenage girls
What to expect if we're compatible:
- chosen family
- misfits
- Scorpios being Scorpios
- horny teenagers
- perfect taste in punk music
- witchcraft
- 90s nostalgia
- excessive depictions of Scottish breakfasts
In this riotous horror debut, a traveling carnival of troublemakers arrive in a small Scottish town and perform their favorite pastime: revenge.
It is the summer of ‘97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the Freakslaw—a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There’s Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, the Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw’s miserably grey landscape, the carnival shines electric and bright, and it doesn’t take long for the town’s teenagers to be seduced by its neon charms and the possibility of escape.
But beneath it all, these newcomers are harboring a darker desire: revenge. Revenge for being cast out, never allowed to settle, punished for purely existing. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic, unwelcoming locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that has been bubbling for centuries is about to be unleashed . . .
Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love meets Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus in this sizzling debut by a writer as captivating as she is incisive, as wild as she is precise. Read this and try not to run away with the Freakslaw. Go on. We dare you.
Coming of Age | Horror | LGBTQ [Zando, On Sale: April 1, 2025, Hardcover / e-Book , ISBN: 9781638932666 / eISBN: 9781638932673]
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