The South Wales valley's are steeped in dark mystery left over from the coal mines, the bleak landscape, and myths that reach further back than history itself.
Stell dir vor, du wachst eines Morgens auf und merkst, dass die ganze Stadt in einem unsichtbaren Netz gefangen ist – ein Netz aus Angst, Geheimnissen und längst vergessenen Wahrheiten.
Distilled through the occluded lens of weird fiction, Michael Kelly's third collection of strange tales is a timely and cogent examination of grief, love, identity, abandonment, homelessness, and illness.
A woman who loves cats perhaps just a little too much; a pair of spinsters not to be underestimated; a bullied boy at the end of his tether; a successful couple about to lose everything.
After Alejandro the waiter performs a new magic trick that humiliates him in front of the whole kitchen, Johnny the pot washer comes up with a new magic trick of his own to serve up a cold dish of revenge.