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In these wonderfully funny and poignant stories, Willett’s eccentric, complex characters think and do the unconventional. Soft, euphonic women gradually grow old; weak, unhappy men confront love and their own mortality; and abominable children desperately try to grow up with grace. With a unique voice and dry humor, Willett gives us a new insight into human existence, showing us those specific moments in relationships when life suddenly becomes visible. Critically acclaimed when it was first published, Jenny and the Jaws of Life is being brought back due to popular demand.

A group of freakish outsiders strive to take the next step in human evolution. A vicious serial murderer finds himself stepping on the toes of some very powerful beings. A journalist gets caught in the middle of a battle between rival zombie cults. A hapless woman causes bloody carnage with an uncontrollable killer mind virus. These are just a few of the monsters on offer in this collection of macabre tales - monsters who hope to either shed their monstrosity...or revel in it.

The residents of a small 19th-century town hide a dreadful secret.... A young man goes to extreme lengths to avenge the victim of a Nazi experiment.... A routine exorcism goes horribly and hilariously awry.... A macabre anniversary gift causes lascivious madness.... A retired circus freak attempts one last revolting performance.... A high school reunion culminates in a bizarre murder.... The Associated Villainies contains 30 horror tales that run the gamut from the frightening to the facetious, from the poetic to the putrid.

An enticing romance story, follow the transformative journey of Elia, a young woman once reassured by the love of her husband Idas, now betrayed by him. Join her journey of survival and her meeting with a similarly fated girl Artizar, for whom Elia will take up the quest to avenge them both, and change her destiny. When love has become a lie, and the person closest to you stabs you in the back for money and status, what choices would you make?

Vanessa and Nick are en route to Washington, D.C., to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, but their differences threaten to ruin the weekend before it has a chance to begin. When an accident further up the tracks leaves their train temporarily stranded in Harpers Ferry National Park, a chance meeting with the town's most iconic resident offers insight into a bit of local history. Will a poignant message from the past help put the newlyweds' future on less shaky ground, or are they doomed to disaster?

The constant theme running through this collection of short stories, the first collection by A. S. Byatt, is that of repetition, taking the form of family patterns recurring across generations, the return of the past in the form of ghosts and the disruptive force of family stories. A. S. Byatt was the winner of the Silver Pen Award for her novel Still Life (1986). Her other novels include Shadow of a Sun, The Game (1983) and The Virgin in the Garden (1981).