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The Butcher of the Forest

Premee Mohamed

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English
Miscellaneous
27 February 2024
"""A perfect mix of horror and fantasy.""--The New York Times

""The Butcher of the Forest"" shows exactly why Mohamed is one of fantasy's rising stars.""--The Washington Post

""The Grimm brothers can't hold a candle to Premee Mohamed and her fever dream of a fantasy novella.""--Polygon

A world-weary woman races against the clock to survive a deadly forest in this dark, otherworldly fairytale from Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author Premee Mohamed.

At the northern edge of a land ruled by a merciless foreign tyrant lies a wild, forbidden forest ruled by powerful magic.

Veris Thorn--the only one to ever enter the forest and survive--is forced to go back inside to retrieve the tyrant's missing children. Inside await traps and trickery, ancient monsters, and hauntings of the past.

One day is all Veris is afforded. One misstep will cost everything."

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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 193mm,  Width: 119mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   136g
ISBN:   9781250881786
ISBN 10:   1250881781
Pages:   160
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Premee Mohamed is a multiple award-nominated Indo-Caribbean scientist and speculative fiction author based in Edmonton, Alberta. She is an Assistant Editor at the short fiction audio venue Escape Pod and the author of the 'Beneath the Rising' series and other works.

Reviews for The Butcher of the Forest

"""Woven with the dark and dreamlike intricacy of a medieval tapestry, this novella implicates the reader as an accomplice in its monstrosity. It's exactly the kind of punishment we as readers deserve.""--Hiron Ennes ""Nothing in nature matches the uncannily sweet murdermirth of Premee Mohamed. She will show you yearning in a scrap of cheese or the whole world in the rules of a game. This book is bigger inside than out... by a large margin.""--Meg Elison, winner of the Locus Award ""Hansel and Gretel meet Annihilation in Premee Mohamed's The Butcher of the Forest, a fairytale that shifts into a meditation on war and grief, one that asks questions about who is innocent and who is complicit in oppression. Come for the eldritch monsters; stay, as always, for Mohamed's critiques of power.""--S. Qiouyi Lu ""An enchanting, bite-sized adventure. . . . Readers will be rapt.""--Publishers Weekly"


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