Anna Tambour is an author of satire, fable and other strange and hard-to-categorize fiction and poetry.
Anna Tambour and Mike Dubisch are a perfect pairing; they share an eye for the delicate, delicious details of the Weird. The seventeen stories collected here—fables of deaths, and Death, animals fabulous and faithful or otherwise—are sly, wise, absurd, awe inspiring, and utterly unforgettable. Who but Anna Tambour and Mike Dubisch could produce a work of such astonishing originality and delightfully detailed insight on what it means to be human, or otherwise.
- Gregory Bossert,
World Fantasy Award Winning Author
When Death Takes A Holiday,
You're Coming Along (like it or not).
What's it really like in Dog Heaven? Why do angels cheat at golf? If charity begins at home, where does it end? And what-and why-are barnacle geese? The unbelievable answers to these and other maddening enigmas lie within Death Goes To The Dogs, a collection so recklessly overstuffed with rabid imagination we refuse all liability in the event that it bursts in your hands.
When Aurealis Award-winning fantasist Anna Tambour delves into the secret lives and forbidden loves of advertising mascots, nursery rhyme refugees and the archetypes of Life (herself) and Death (himself), questions nobody ever thought to ask (and only the inestimable Mike Dubisch dared to illustrate), ripen into scathing fables for our post-historical age.
272 pages, 70 illustrations
CRANDOLIN
In a medieval cookbook in a special-collections library, near-future London, jaded food and drink authority Nick Kippax finds an alluring stain next to a recipe for the mythical crandolin. He tastes it, ravishing the page. Then he disappears. The World Fantasy Award finalist from a critically acclaimed writer.
The only novel ever committed that was inspired by postmodern physics AND Ottoman confectionery.
“I don't think that you can really review an Anna Tambour book, you can merely sort of hang on for the ride and hope that your literary senses are still intact when you're done ... Yup, CRANDOLIN is essentially a cookery book. A cookery book of cosmic proportions ... CRANDOLIN is fabulation at its most exciting ... Anna Tambour is a rogue punk-prophetess whose writings not only stray from the beaten path; some of them are so far out there that you can hear the distant drums of strange story-tribes being awakened by her prose.”
— I. O'Reilly, Review, British Fantasy Society
“Immerse yourself in the magical world of Anna Tambour’s Crandolin, a delirious journey that takes the reader through Central Asia and Russia with some fascinating strangers and a donkey, a demanding musical instrument, and delicious hints of nougat and honey.”
— Ellen Datlow
“By turns lyrical and absurdist, whimsical and elegantly true, Crandolin is unlike any novel you will ever have read. Anna Tambour is brilliant, a true original.”
— Lucius Shepard
“At heart Crandolin is a rich confectionery, a tapestry woven out of dreams and nightmares, an Arabian Nights tale for the twenty first century with Tambour as Scheherazade, lulling us with her mellifluous voice and artistry. I loved it, and didn’t want it to end.”
— Peter Tennant, Review, Black Static
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