Llewellyn’s ability to shock and twist the psychosexual reality beyond of any preconceived notions. The story will adhere itself to your inner safe places and shred them to pieces and make you gasp at Ms. Lovecraft then shaken, stirred and filtered through Ligotti to create a totally frightening vision of strangeness and dread and sexual depravity. It evokes the influence of Arthur Machen and H. The story is both frightening and totally bizarre. Is the coming of age story of a young sheltered girl. My favorite story in the collection is “The Last, Clean, Bright Summer”. Her writing is so strikingly vibrant that the characters that inhabit the stories shimmer and shine with energy from a cosmic source. The power of Livia Llewellyn is in her ability to describe scenes and inject horror and fright She is a master. Llewellyn does not shy away from graphic descriptions her characters encounter. Some of the stories are highly emotional and even more erotically charged. This is an excellent and solid set of stories which enter the world of the weird and ultra strange. The talented and gifted author Livia Llewellyn has recently released her second collection of stories titled “Furnace”.
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