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Nightmare Flower by Elizabeth Engstrom

Trade Paperback – Valancourt Books – Oct 2020 – 310 pages

This collection of eighteen short tales, a novelette and a short novel takes the reader inside the dark imagination of Elizabeth Engstrom, author of acclaimed horror classics like When Darkness Loves Us. 

In these stories, you will read about a woman asked to be complicit in her own mother’s death, a grandmother with a macabre hobby, a bizarre, phallic-shaped flower that portends evil for a married couple, a father whose son is caught up in a sinister government experiment. These are weird and unsettling tales that will linger with the reader.
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In her introduction to this new edition, Lisa Kröger writes, “There are true horrors that await readers in all of Engstrom’s works … reminds me of another giant of horror literature, Shirley Jackson.”