Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Kenneth Radu

Róbert Gál

Bill Mayer

James Ragan

Mark Vincenz

Tomás Ó Cárthaigh

A. H. C. Erdely-Siebenburgen

Goulash (Gulyás in the original Hungarian) is primarily a soup, or stew, comprised of various and sundry ingredients, both hearty and well-spiced. In both Czech and Slovak, gulás means "mishmash". GOULASH, the new anthology from Danse Macabre, celebrates well-spiced letters brimming in colorful tastes, tones, styles, and voices, an international literary stew to satisfy bookish hungers for characters we have never met, images we have not yet dreamt, voices from afar - and within - we may never have otherwise heard. Drawn from the locked coolers of issues lost to time, GOULASH is gourmet DM distilled, featuring a global buffet of tasty fictions and artisanal poetry...not to mention more than a few surprise ingredients readers worldwide have come to expect from DM for over a decade. GOULASH will not only satiate your imaginative appetites but slake your thirst for colour and zest in an increasingly deflavourised cultural landscape.

A Danse Macabre Anthology

Goulash

A male professor known for sexually harassing female students creates disquiet in a community in which women are murdered in gardens tended by the father of one of his students.

The Purest of Human Pleasures

Delia, an independent-minded Montreal woman of sixty and sexually experienced, leaves her married lover to go on a cruise along the Volga and enters into a forbidden but lustful and satisfying liaison with Kostya, a young member of the ship's crew. Kostya, looking out for the best opportunity to leave his country, is in it for more than erotic pleasures, something Delia understands and acts accordingly. Inappropriate dalliance, however, on board and ports of call in a Russia at war with Chechnya is not the sole narrative engine of this acutely written novel. Memory and identity, the inexorable passing of time, and the desire to be more in imagination than in actuality, are driving motivators in the lives of such characters as the brilliantly conceived, and possibly lunatic Frank, an elderly gentleman who believes himself to be the son of the murdered tsarevitch Alexis and has designs on Delia. Kostya's colourful mother and the mysterious, threatening man who seems to follow Delia also have their own plans. Butterfly in Amber is a novel about choices, sex, living life on unfamiliar terrain, and the courage to act according to one's desires, the consequences be damned, although discretion is always advisable, if not always followed.

Butterfly in Amber

Distant Relations

Kenneth Radu

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