Name: The Sourdough Compendium
Price: 10.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: A.G. Slatter
ISBN: 9781835416006

Award-winning stories from the world of All the Murmuring Bones and The Briar Book of the Dead, this is a compendium of fantastic tales from the dark gothic heart of the Sourdough universe. Witches, assassins and pirates are brought to life in immersive, sinister and magical prose.

Within these pages, coffin-makers work hard to keep the dead buried and their own murderous urges in check; poison girls are schooled in the art of marital assassination; books carry forth stories and forbidden secrets; a young witch wreaks a terrible revenge on an old lover; the Little Sisters of St Florian devote their lives to knowledge good and bad; a dying forest god is reinvigorated; mermaids and seamstresses make dangerous bargains; changelings bring havoc. Saints slumber, hind-girls dance across the countryside, bears show their true colours, and the fate of the upper and lower worlds rests on the whim of a volatile plague maiden…

Comprised of three collections (Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings and The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales) these award-winning storms form much of the foundational mythology for Slatter’s dark fairy-tale gothic Sourdough novels. Exquisite, compelling and rich with unforgettable characters, these tales layer and intertwine in the dextrous hands of a master storyteller.

“A dazzling masterpiece of a tapestry novel, where each dark fairy tale twist weaves together into something much greater.”
Caitlin Rozakis, New York Times bestselling author of Dreadful

“A collection of individually intriguing stories that built into an intricate, beautiful and brooding world”
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of Children of Time

“A whopping 688 pages of short stories compiled from three previous mosaic collections – Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and The Tallow- Wife and Other Tales – all based in Slatter’s Sourdough universe. For those of us lucky enough to have been immersed in this darkly fantastic world for fifteen years or so, there will be no surprises; for newcomers oriented only since the recent novels, it will be a thrill to discover more of the mythology. Both will be delighted.”
Paula Guran, Locus Magazine

“Slatter displays a rare gift for evocative and poetic prose”
Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Slatter’s work is excellent, and eminently readable. The world that her creations live within is excellently depicted, and the characters easy to relate to. It’s easy to see how she’s managed to make such an impact on the genre and garnered a British Fantasy Award and numerous other nominations.”
British Fantasy Society

“[Angela Slatter] has carved a niche as one of the best writers of short stories of dark fantasy… Slatter combines darkness, passion and beauty to leave the reader at turns amused, confronted and horrified.”
The Australian

“A collection of stories in which each individual work is a perfectly crafted gem… As of today’s date, I rate The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings the best book I have read so far this year.”
Black Static

“Wonderful prose and… enticing narrative style, where words are musical notes and the stories are symphonies.”
Black Gate

“Like Aickman, her sense of the fantastic serves to show us the weird world we hold within our own psyches.”
Rick Kleffel, American Public Radio Books

“Slatter’s fairy tales have a ravishing quality which leaves the reader totally spellbound by their elegance and imaginative power.”
Bookgeeks

The Sourdough Compendium

Related Genres

You May Also Like

This Immortal Heart

It Came From Neverland

Ghostly Kyoto