Grimscribe Press Presents GLASS STORIES by Ivy Grimes

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Cover reveal from Grimscribe Press! Art by Jesse Peper!

Those who wish to buy one of the 50 limited edition hardcovers may pre-order here. Cloth, dust jacket, 70# paper. As of this post, 21 of the 50 books remain unsold.

The book is 142 pp. and will be released on August 21, 2024.

A collection by LC von Hessen will drop in October 2024. Stay tuned! Grimes and von Hessen are two of our favorite VASTARIEN veteran authors, and we're thrilled to be publishing both their debut collections this year.


GLASS STORIES by Ivy Grimes

Synopsis

Glass Stories by Ivy Grimes is a collection of seventeen darkly weird and humorous tales that reflect the essence of Angela Carter, Shirley Jackson, Kelly Link, and Haruki Murakami’s storytelling. Grimes explores the spectral nature of glass in everyday objects, taking readers from purgatory to the Bible Belt, through narratives that shimmer with the uncanny and the absurd. An old woman invites two strangers into her glass tower, a woman gives birth under the glow of a glass gift from her late mother, a bookstore clerk’s mundane existence is shattered by a glass book, and a man untangles his mother’s fears through a glass oddity. From the menacing presence of a glass angel to a glass pet protector who eats light, each story is a pane that illuminates the characters’ deepest trials and whims. We witness a teen reinventing herself amidst glass coffins, two elderly brothers opening old wounds in a glass museum, a bride bedazzled by a glass apple given to her as a wedding present, an aggrieved daughter trapped atop a glass mountain by her father, and a captive woman who glimpses salvation through a mirror. The singular tales in Glass Stories entrance and delight.


Table of Contents

Glass Tower

Glass Mother

Glass Book

Glass Clue

Glass Turtle

Glass Art

Glass Coffins

Glass Museums

Glass Angel

Looking Glass

Glass Pet

Glass Piano

Glass Mountain

Glass Pills

Glass Cabbage

Glass House

Glass Apple


About the Author
Ivy Grimes was born in Alabama and currently lives in Virginia. She is very quiet and enjoys puzzles. Her stories have appeared in Vastarien, Interzone, the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, hex, ergot., Seize the Press, and elsewhere. Also available are a chapbook of short stories called Grime Time and a novella called Star Shapes. Visit her at Ivy Grimes Writer of strange stories.

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SOLD OUT! THANK YOU to our wonderful readers!

If you didn't secure your copy of this fantastic tome, not to worry. Trade paper and eBook editions should be available for pre-order tomorrow.

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There are two editions now available for presale: trade paper and pay-what-you-can ePub. Many thanks!