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ISBN10: 196310806X
ISBN13: 9781963108064
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781963108064
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Apr 15 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.65
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Winner of the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Finalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize
A TIME Best Book of the Month
I am obsessed with these lush, feral stories.―Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times.―Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal. In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript, pining for Christ's love. During a long, muggy July in rural South Carolina, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film The Exorcist. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills. And at a feminist art colony in the North Carolina mountains, a group of mothers contends with the supernatural talents their children have picked up from a pair of mysterious orphans who live in the woods. With exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott's Hellions jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, presenting earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.
Finalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize
A TIME Best Book of the Month
I am obsessed with these lush, feral stories.―Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Beautiful, visceral, surprising stories, both wild and dangerous, with a Southern twang but universal appeal. Elliott is an Angela Carter for our times.―Jeff VanderMeer, author of Absolution From the acclaimed author of The Wilds comes an electric story collection that blends folklore, fairy tales, Southern Gothic, and horror, reveling in the collision of the familiar with the wildly surreal. In a plague-stricken medieval convent, a nun works on a forbidden mystic manuscript, pining for Christ's love. During a long, muggy July in rural South Carolina, an adolescent girl finds unexpected power as her family obsesses over the horror film The Exorcist. On the outskirts of a Southern college town, a young woman resists the tyranny of a shape-shifting older professor as she develops her own sorceress skills. And at a feminist art colony in the North Carolina mountains, a group of mothers contends with the supernatural talents their children have picked up from a pair of mysterious orphans who live in the woods. With exuberance, ferocity, and astounding imagination, Julia Elliott's Hellions jumps from the occult to the comic, from the horrific to the wondrous, presenting earthbound characters who long for the otherworldly.
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