Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora

Kristy Park Kulski, Lee Murray

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Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora

Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora

Kristy Park Kulski, Lee Murray

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Silk & Sinew: A Collection of Folk Horror from the Asian Diaspora will tease forth folk horror rooted in the experience of the Asian Diaspora. From lengths of muscle and vein, ground bones, endless ropes of sinew it is with our bodies folk horror is woven.With Stories and Poetry by Ai Jiang, Nadia Bulkin, Christina Sng, Rena Mason, Lee Murray, J.A.W. McCarthy, Geneve Flynn, Bryan Thao Worra, Ayida Shonibar, Yi Izzy Yu, Angela Yuriko Smith, Kanishk Tantia, Robert Nazar Arjoyan, Christopher Hann, Audrey Zhou, Seoung Kim, Rowan Cardosa, Gabriela Lee, Shawna Yang Ryan, Priya Sridhar, Jess Cho, and Saheli Khastagir And a Foreword by Monika Kim.

About the Author

KRISTY PARK KULSKI is a Hawaii-born Korean-American author, historian, and career vampire of patriarchal tears. Channeling a lifelong obsession with history and the morose she's managed to birth the gothic horror novel, Fairest Flesh, and novella, House of Pungsu. She bartered nine years of her life to the U.S. Navy and Air Force for food and later taught college history for a captive audience. Trapped by a force field, she currently resides in the woods of Northeast Ohio where she (probably) brews potions and talks to ghosts.

AI JIANG is a Chinese-Canadian writer, Ignyte, Bram Stoker, and Nebula Award winner, and Hugo, Astounding, Locus, Aurora, and BFSA Award finalist from Changle, Fujian currently residing in Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of A Palace Near the Wind, Linghun, and I AM AI. Find her at www.aijiang.ca

LEE MURRAY ONZM is a multi-award-winning author-editor, essayist, poet, and screenwriter from Aotearoa-New Zealand. A USA Today Bestselling author, Shirley Jackson and five-time Bram Stoker Awards(R) winner, she is a New Zealand Prime Minister's Award-winner for Literary Achievement in Fiction. Lee lives in the sunny Bay of Plenty with her well-behaved family and a naughty dog.

"Lee Murray is synonymous with Kiwi horror." --Alan Baxter, award-winning author of The Gulp and Sallow Bend.
"Horror author Lee Murray is New Zealand's Stephen King ." --NZ Woman's Weekly
"Lee Murray is a powerful voice in horror." --Interstellar Flight Magazine
"A feminist warrior of our time." --Happy Goat Horror

In July 2024, Lee was listed in the Listener's Quiet achievers, rebels, and dreamers: 50 of New Zealand's most inspiring people.

Lee is represented by Becky LeJeune of Bond Literary Agency.

Publishing Information

Publisher: Bad Hand Books
Pub date: 2025-05-06
Length: 370 pages

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