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My House Gathers Desires

My House Gathers Desires - American Readers Series

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  • Solidly in the New Wave Fabulist writing school that blends Fantasy, History, Horror, and Science Fiction with impeccable literary writing. Influences include Angela Carter, Isak Dinesen, and Edgar Allen Poe.

  • In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, these stories look for new ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history. In "Sodom and Gomorrah," we encounter a subversive and ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In "The Re'em," a medieval monk's search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in "Notes on Inversion," German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire.

  • Much of McOmber's writing is an investigation into mythology, animism, and queer identity-disrupting conventional notions of both gender and Romanticism. Booklist says of his novel, The White Forest: "McOmber explores the nexus between the natural and the artificial, the intangible and the concrete.…Commandingly erudite and imaginative, McOmber meshes myth, the occult, and 19th-century technological advances in an uncanny and captivating gothic tale."

  • Uses historical figures and settings, and bends factual information with fantastical writing to create plausible alternative histories that ultimately comment on our own notions of modern life.

  • Strong LGBTQ themes and characters.

    • Book information

    ISBN: 9781942683414
    Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
    Imprint: BOA Editions
    Pub date:
    Edition: First edition
    DEWEY: 813.6
    DEWEY edition: 23
    Language: English
    Number of pages: 160
    Weight: 200g
    Height: 203mm
    Width: 133mm
    Spine width: 13mm

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