Praise for GLASS STORIES

“A stunning collection of seventeen delicate and defiant contemporary tales recalling myth, fable, and scripture, Glass Stories is reminiscent of Kelly Link and Angela Carter while staying true to Ivy Grimes’ uniquely Southern sensibility. A phenomenal talent and a highly recommended collection!”
—Christi Nogle, Bram Stoker Award® winner and author of The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future

“I want to get glass dentures and eat this book. In Glass Stories, Ivy Grimes haunts and delights with wry, absurd charm and quietly ferocious clarity. She evokes everything troubling and uncomfortable about traditional household and nursery tales while creating entirely original modern narratives concerned primarily with youthful women’s experiences of doubt, fear, selfhood, and violence. She asks us to confront ‘God’ in its many breakable forms, trade places with other selves in mirrors, and leaves us wondering who among us, after all, has not swallowed a glass piano?”
—Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands and Invaginies

“High priestess of the weird, sorceress of the strange, oracle of all that is uncanny Ivy Grimes will guide you through her shattered dreamscapes with a deft and forceful hand.”
—Andrew F. Sullivan, author of The Marigold and The Handyman Method

“Glass Stories refracts its thematic premise into seventeen dark and enthralling esoteric fables. For those in the know, Ivy Grimes has long been one of the most exciting new voices in weird fiction—crafting tales of absurdity and everyday unsettlement with a voice and style all her own. Glass Stories is a meditation on glass and everything that comes with it—from its beauty, to its jagged edges, to its bent light.”
—Carson Winter, author of The Psychographist

“In this collection of crystalline strangeness and existential anxiety, Grimes presents seventeen stories filled with offbeat beauty, odd humor, and mythic speculation. This is sharp, must-read fiction that radiates inventive menace and luminous uncanny.”
—Tiffany Morris, author of Green Fuse Burning

“Anyone interested in the Weird renaissance of the last decade will welcome the publication of the first full-length collection from Ivy Grimes: her work is deft and whimsical, but dangerous, too. Glass Stories are full of longing and the fear of loss, of faith and doubt, of mothers and ghosts and familiar fairy tales shaped into new and stranger forms. There’s a grace and lightness to her prose that belies the strangeness of her world.”
—Seán Padraic Birnie, author of I Would Haunt You if I Could