Book Review: Cráite by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin

“Wives swell with babies. Unwed girls and women house only demons.”

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Cráite by Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin is a superb collection of grisly short stories infused with horror, menace, death, and dark history. Shocking and chilling, disquieting and haunting, eerie and horrifying, it’s an unputdownable, gothic-steeped read that, though small in size (literally: I love Filthy Loot’s trademark petite tomes!), packs a wallop, topped off with gorgeous, marvelously macabre cover art.

Easily an all-time favorite for this reader and, to give you an idea of how significant this is, I often struggle with short stories and don’t read many as a result, but I tore through this in one sitting and likely would have turned feral had I been disturbed!

Favorites:

• “Phytophthora”
• “Geisterbahnhof”
• “Teufelsberg”
• “You Have to Invite It In”

🖤Amanda