Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories by Rosalie Parker (Tartarus Press, 2023) Limited Edition Hardback

Rosalie Parker. Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories. Leyburn: North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2023. Hardback with dust jacket. 239 pages. Limited to 300 copies. Signed by the author. 

Condition: New

Description from the publisher: 

The humans who inhabit Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories seem destined to test the limitations of rational existence. Some have accidentally strayed into no-man’s land, such as the narrator of ‘Bipolarity’ who must decide how to learn to live (or not) with her mental illness; or the protagonist of ‘Beguiled’ who may be forced by family attitudes into social obscurity; or, in ‘School Trip’, unpromising June’s unexpected discovery of her own ‘special powers’. Other stories, such as ‘Home Comforts’, are more playful, although the uncanny is never far away.

Dream Fox also includes ‘a book within a book’: Mary Belgrove’s Book of Unusual Experiences—containing nine diverse accounts of weird and paranormal happenings written by those who experienced them, compiled and commented upon by the eponymous Ms Belgrove, whose dying wish is to publish evidence of such events for scientists to study. Who can resist accounts of indestructible mushrooms, a country house party that goes disastrously wrong, prehistoric wish-fulfilment magic, or the dream-fuelled psychedelic love story that is ‘View from a Tower’?

Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories is Rosalie Parker’s fifth collection of strange tales.

Signed by the author.

Cover image: ‘Crossing an Iced-Over Stream’ by Gina Litherland.

Dream Fox and Other Strange Stories  is published as a sewn hardback book of 239 pages, printed lithographically, with head and tailbands, ribbon marker, and d/w.