Strange Italies: The Preview

With my editor extraordinare, J. N.Fishhawk, we are closing in on the end of this novel-length collection of short stories. For those curious, it looks something like this :

                                            

                                                    

Strange Italies: Eight Tales of the Fantastic




A relic thief in a midnight raid surprises a nun, under the aegis of a strange saint.




Twin historians, living and dead, track Dante’s spell to assassinate the pope.




A young noblewoman cheats fate with an enchanted tarot deck.






Two artists meet across the centuries in a high-stakes game of hide and go seek.




A murderess on a lover’s pilgrimage finds an unexpected salvation.




A spider dance could lift a curse of bridal suicides reaching back centuries.



In this collection of four short stories and four novellas, author Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (published in NewMyths, Bewildering Stories, and Myths Subverted) weaves past and present to transport the reader into an uncanny Italy haunted by the bizarre and the beyond.









Table of Contents






1. The Pilgrimage

2. I Trionfi

3. The Historian's Debt

4. The Mural

5. The Mirror

6. Matter of the Heart

7. Our Lady’s Tears

8. Tarantella