Apple and Knife

A black velvet butterfly darts out of Hands a cave. Menstrual blood pools in the backseat of a car. Rats pour forth from an open doorway. 1 Gilda i Nishtea I DiViNG ack These stories set in the Indonesian everyday - in corporate boardrooms, in shanty towns, on dangdut stages - reveal a soupy otherworld stewing just beneath the surface. Melding featuri horror, myth and fairytale, this is subversive feminist fiction at its best, where men and women alike are arbiters of fear, and where revenge is sometimes sweetest when delivered he Fearful from the grave. Symmer: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of weird fiction with nine books by nine pioneering female authors.