The Museum of Atheism by Laura Ellen Joyce
The Museum of Atheism tells the story of a murdered six year old beauty queen during the last 24 hours of her life on Christmas Eve in a mountainous, isolated community. It involves a fox cull, and a man who repairs sex dolls and is Avas biggest fan.[Of `Murmurations' anthology edited by Nicholas Royle] There's a distinctly gothic flavour to this anthologyWhat with a sinister Icelandic raven bloody-beaked and full of eyeballs, the atrocious cruelty of gannets who claim children as sacrificial victims, and the mercilessness of Daphne du Maurier's notorious birds with their innate instinct to destroy mankind, it's clear that these creatures inhabit a dark hinterland in which our subconscious fears of evil are realised.
* The Guardian *
Laura Ellen Joyce researches 21st century literature, necrophilia, masculinity, crime scenes and pornography at Sussex University. She is project co-ordinator of the AHRC Global Queer Cinema project. She has been published in Succour, Paraxis and Quick Fictions, and anthologised in Murmurations: An Uncanny Anthology of Bird Stories. She lives in Brighton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907773143 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907773142 |
| Title | The Museum of Atheism |
| Author | Laura Ellen Joyce |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Salt Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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