Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors

Fiction & Literature, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Contemporary Women
Cover of the book Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors by Livia Llewellyn, Lethe Press
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Author: Livia Llewellyn ISBN: 9781452410104
Publisher: Lethe Press Publication: March 3, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Livia Llewellyn
ISBN: 9781452410104
Publisher: Lethe Press
Publication: March 3, 2011
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards....The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn.
In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes "Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain." An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshiping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen-year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge the reader’s sensibilities, their fears and desires.

Nominated twice for the prestigious Shirley Jackson Awards!

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Death and pleasure. Freud's Todestrieb, his statement that "libido has the task of making the destroying instinct innocuous, and it fulfills the task by diverting that instinct to a great extent outwards....The instinct is then called the destructive instinct, the instinct for mastery, or the will to power." Few authors have spun stories of Thanatos and Eros as skillfully and powerfully as Livia Llewellyn.
In his introduction to this volume, Laird Barron writes "Scant difference exists between exquisite pleasure and pain." An orphan girl with a mind for anthracite falls into the hands of a cult worshiping an entombed god. In the Pacific Northwest, evergreens lull prepubescent girls into their trunks to serve as wombs. A suburban housewife troubled by her present encounters the sixteen-year-old girl she ached to touch in her dreams. These ten stories promise to indulge the reader’s sensibilities, their fears and desires.

Nominated twice for the prestigious Shirley Jackson Awards!

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