The Lure of Dangerous Women

By Shanna Germain

Dangerous women aren’t always the ones who carry guns and take down the bad guys. Sometimes, the most dangerous women are the ones we don’t even notice -- the sultry siren crooning in a smoky bar, the innocent young girl twirling in her summer dress, the soft-shoed nurse who helps the comatose.

In this collection, award-winning author Shanna Germain gathers seven of her darkest, lushest fantasy and horror stories about strong, smart women who know that danger is a matter of scale -- and of which side you happen to be standing on.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
• Release date: Aug 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301074624

Shanna Germain

Shanna Germain claims the titles of leximaven, vorpal blonde, Schrodinger's Brat, Midas's touch and La Douleur Exquise. When not writing, she sniffs old books indiscriminately, fingers hardback spines with aplomb, and does dirty things between the stacks.

Reviews for The Lure of Dangerous Women

[calum7iain · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a collection of seven short dark fantasy tales that are beautifully written with some truly elegant prose, but at the same time are conceptually difficult and highly challenging in their themes. The stories are: "Trill" (the dark magic of the musician); "Seed" (strange taboos in an alien culture); "Seeing Stars" (a strange dystopia where hedonism reaches deadly new heights); "Animal Instinct" (a ghost story of sorts); "One-Woman Town" (terrible beauty and the sadness of song); "Forced Expiration" (a new take on the end of life) and story "The Lure of Dangerous Women" (the powerful force to possess things of beauty). Each story here is totally different but each one is interesting and stylistically original, full of strange atmospheres, odd tinges of dread and a tangible sense of the uncanny. The stories are full of intricately built prose and layers of allusion that is at times challenging to work through, but in the end all are highly rewarding and darkly beautiful.