The Cat Bride
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2025
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78463-362-2 (ISBN)
Salt Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78463-362-2 (ISBN)
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1995. Sixteen years since a tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. The ‘tynx’ was killed, but when sixteen-year-old Lowdy returns to the derelict zoo, is it a coincidence that a freakishly large cat appears to start stalking the village? The Cat Bride views the liminality of teenaged girls through a gothic nineties fug.
The heatwave of 1995. Sixteen years since an infamous tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. Sixteen years since the animal was euthanised. Sixteen years for the zoo to fall into disrepair.
Then sixteen-year-old convalescent Lowdy, and her Mumma, are forced to move to the remote old zoo to care for her dying grandmother, and rumours of the animal stalking the moors resurface. Vengeful locals blame the three women for the predator on the loose. Mumma insists all the cats are dead. Grandma whispers that the ‘tynx’ needs to be fed. Lowdy, still recovering from her own mysterious illness, begins to wonder who she can trust. Can she even trust herself when she wakes up covered in ticks with no recollection of the night before?
As Lowdy searches for the truth – the truth of her childhood, what it means to be a woman, and the truth about the cats – she realises something feral runs in the blood, something she cannot ignore.
Much more than simply the wry horror of a young woman’s beastly metamorphosis, The Cat Bride views the eerie liminality of teenaged girls through a pastoral gothic fug of lairy nineties lads, booze and fags.
The heatwave of 1995. Sixteen years since an infamous tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. Sixteen years since the animal was euthanised. Sixteen years for the zoo to fall into disrepair.
Then sixteen-year-old convalescent Lowdy, and her Mumma, are forced to move to the remote old zoo to care for her dying grandmother, and rumours of the animal stalking the moors resurface. Vengeful locals blame the three women for the predator on the loose. Mumma insists all the cats are dead. Grandma whispers that the ‘tynx’ needs to be fed. Lowdy, still recovering from her own mysterious illness, begins to wonder who she can trust. Can she even trust herself when she wakes up covered in ticks with no recollection of the night before?
As Lowdy searches for the truth – the truth of her childhood, what it means to be a woman, and the truth about the cats – she realises something feral runs in the blood, something she cannot ignore.
Much more than simply the wry horror of a young woman’s beastly metamorphosis, The Cat Bride views the eerie liminality of teenaged girls through a pastoral gothic fug of lairy nineties lads, booze and fags.
Charlotte Tierney’s work has been published as part of the Galley Beggars Short Story Prize 2023, as well as by Nightjar Press and in Litro, New England Review, McNeese Review, Denver Quarterly, 3:AM Magazine and others.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Not illustrated |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78463-362-3 / 1784633623 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78463-362-2 / 9781784633622 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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