Description:
The worlds of love-struck human artists, immortal gentry queens and diabolical goblin upstarts collide in Dark Breakers, a volume of new and uncollected tales from World Fantasy Award-winner C. S. E. Cooney.
Review Quotes:
"C. S. E. Cooney's prose is like a cake baked by the fairies-beautifully layered, rich and precise, so delicious that it should be devoured with a silver fork. Since you can't eat Dark Breakers, I suggest you read it slowly, savoring every slice. And if it gives you strange dreams-well, what did you expect of fairy cake?"
-Theodora Goss, World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award-winning author of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series
"Dark Breakers is a magnificent parure of novellas and matched stories, a suite of jewelled and velvet tales, delicately linked and ferociously glittering. A baroquely intense confection with a core of typewriters and coal fortunes, Dark Breakers is compounded of voluptuous invention and ferocious structural loves-for new romances and old friends, for the works of hands, for mortality and its gifts, and all the possibilities of worlds bleeding, weeping, wandering into each other's arms."
-Kathleen Jennings, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Flyaway
"Few people create worlds as lavish and sensual as those that spring from Cooney's effervescent imagination. Her writing isn't so much inspirational, but inspiration itself: gentry-magic spun into pages and paragraphs of glittering, fizzing, jaw-dropping beauty."
-Cassandra Khaw, British Fantasy Award-nominated author of The All-Consuming World
"Welcome to a Gilded Era like you've never before known and will never be able to forget. C. S. E. Cooney's Dark Breakers will transfix and transform you, and, should you chance upon its characters in a glittering hallway, you had best be wearing your fanciest moonlight, and be ready to dance. If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one."
-Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of Updraft and Riverland