But when they encounter a village of bloodthirsty children, they will have to tap into their own darkest impulses in order to survive the nightmare. Amidst the ruins of her adopted home, she sets out with a mysterious, genderless plague doctor to find a new home. Because when this mermaid walked on land and married a prince, her sharp-toothed children consumed him and the kingdom where she, with her tongue cut out and teeth pried out, could not. This elegantly gruesome novella feels like the perfect way to kick off this chilly spring, a sly dark twin to the forthcoming live-action Little Mermaid. Consider these books fraternal twins, then, which makes it all the more intriguing to watch different authors’-some you may well know, others exciting debuts-complementary and wonderfully specific takes on the same general ideas.
Siblings clash in contemporary and second-world fantasy, struggling with the magical destinies they’ve inherited. A pair of dragon tales reexamine the familiar fantasy creature through the lenses of colonialism and gender. There are two speculative short fiction collections, one excavating everyday horrors and the other delving into alternate dimensions and space.
This May, almost every sci-fi, fantasy, and horror offering has a twin of sorts. I’ve said it before, but I love watching motifs and storytelling tropes dovetail in monthly releases.
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