Marly Youmans

Catherwood

A blank-verse epic poem set in a post-apocalyptic world that tells of the rebirth of the human race through the girl Thalia.

Thaliad

After a death at the White Camellia Orphanage in Lexsy, Georgia, young Pip Tatnall leaves to ride the rails--a path filled with self-understanding in the cruel but sometimes lovely world of Depression-era America. By the author of The Wolf Pit.

A Novel

A Death at the White Camellia Orphanage

"When I swung over that windowsill, everything changed for me. We are meant to go in and out of doors in civilized style, but my mother bade me climb into woodsy wildness and a darkness flushed with crimson light and torches …" Clambering into the branches of a tree, a young woman flees flaming arrows and massacre. She will need to struggle for survival: to scour the wilderness for shelter, to strive and seek for a new family and a setting where she can belong. Her unmarked way is costly and hard. For Charis, the world outside the window of home is a maze of hazards. And even if she survives the wilds, it is no simple matter to discover and nest among her own kind—the godly, those called Puritans by others. She may be tugged by her desires for companionship, may even stumble into an intense love for a man, and may be made to try the strength of female heroism in ways no longer familiar to women in our century. Streams of darkness run through the seventeenth-century villages of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Occult fears have a way of creeping into the mind. What young woman can be safe from the dangers of wilderness when its shadowy thickets spring up so easily in the soil of human hearts? Much will oppose Charis' longings for renewal and peace; she must pursue and discover the hero's path to a larger, more vivid life.

A Novel Set in Puritan New England

Charis in the World of Wonders

In The Throne of Psyche, Marly Youmans sweeps back and forth between what is human and what is other, binding the two together or crossing the thresholds between them. A prize-winning writer of stories and novels, she pursues tales both otherworldly and earthy with passion and formal power in this eighth book, her second collection of poetry. The title poem⿿s narrative governs the entire collection in its yoking of Eros to Psyche. Psyche is the young girl brought in fear to a marriage chamber that transforms into forest as ⿿The little stars⿿ go ⿿shrieking through the wood⿿ and her childhood innocence is ⿿struck asunder.⿿ But she is more than mortal as she passes in and out of time: the child who hears a dryad prophesy, the goddess who sits on a throne or plays ⿿in the arms of Love / As starlight steadies in his perfect flesh,⿿ the figure of meditation and grief who walks along the broken palace walls of home, the bold adventurer who has been to hell and drunk the blood of memory in the place where all she once loved is now shadow. Elsewhere in these poems are other potent narratives and revelations where mortal flesh slams into death and transformation: a woman dances with God, the poet speaks in the form of a dryad, a sister transforms into a fish and swims away, a doll is cast out from home and overtaken by a demon, the otherworldly infiltrates the leastmost dust, and a new mother walks with Death in his forest. Such metamorphoses and broodings on the door ajar between human and other remind us that Marly Youmans is ⿿the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers. She writes like an angel⿿an angel who has learned what it is to be human⿿ (John Wilson, Books & Culture).

The Throne of Psyche

A young Confederate soldier retains his humanity in the face of a brutal war by clinging to family pictures, Psalms, and a strange story about mysterious green children discovered in a wolf pit. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

The Wolf Pit

Elizabeth Bear

Tamsyn Muir

Nancy Kilpatrick

Sonya Taaffe

Sarah Monette

Gemma Files

Molly Tanzer

Caitlin Kiernan

Cat Hellisen

Joyce Oates

Lucy Brady

Kelda Crich

Karen Heuler

Lois Gresh

E. Knightsbridge

Amanda Downman

Featuring authors Joyce Carol Oates, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Lois Gresh, Gemma Files, Nancy Kilpatrick, Elizabeth Bear, Storm Constantine and others accompanied by the lavish color artwork of Daniele Serra, Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror is a representation of some of the finest cosmic horror and weird fiction from female authors in the field today.

Dreams from the Witch House (2018 Trade Paperback Edition)

Marly Youmans

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