The Complete Butcher's Tales

The Complete Butcher's Tales
recently released by Dalkey Archive

The Complete Butcher's Tales is made up of nearly sixty stories in the fantastic tradition of Jorge Luis Borges. Rikki Ducornet's work ignores the confines of space and time to offer a cabinet of curiosities in contemporary Cairo, an alchemical ceiling in 18th-century Naples, the hallucinatory inner worlds of psychotics, anthropomorphic planets, and an Old West ruled by necromancy. The Washington Post said, "In the bizarre world of Rikki Ducornet’s fiction, laughter and terror hold hands in an uneasy truce and almost anything can happen."

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