Now, for the first time, John Connolly’s one volume presents the history of Irish genre writing and uses it to explore how we think about fiction itself.
Deeply researched, and passionately argued, SHADOW VOICES takes the lives of more than sixty writers. By turns tragic, amusing, and adventurous, but always extraordinary.
The editor sets them alongside the stories they have written, to create a new way of looking at genre and literature, both Irish and beyond.
Here are vampires and monsters, murderers and cannibals. Here are female criminal masterminds and dogged detectives, star-crossed lovers and vengeful spouses.
All sorts of everything.