Beatific Vermin contains eleven of D.P. Watt's strange tales, four original to this book, all previously uncollected: Tales of fragmenting identity, seething beauty, quiet anger and tumultuous imaginary voids. Herein, bodies relinquish their sensuous delights revealing layers of decay; secrets are made, and unmade; other worlds collide with ours, enticing us with pestilent wonders.
The full contents are as follows...
These, His Other Worlds
Noumenon
Jack
Distillate of Sin
Your Bodies, Where We Dwell
Serendipity
How to Make a Secret
Hiraeth
Clematis, White and Purple
Pay No Worship to the Garish Sun
The Proclamation
D.P. Watt's previous collections have appeared with Tartarus, Mount Abraxas, Undertow, Eibonvale and Undertow, and his stories have been published in numerous anthologies.
The book is a lithographically printed, 192 page pocket sized hardback (105mm x 165mm); limited to 250 copies. It is part of the Egaeus Press Keynote Editions. ISBN 978-1-916465787. Published October 2020.
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