num_pages: 223
description: In "The Stain" Rikki Ducornet tells the story of a young girl named Charlotte, branded with a furry birthmark in the shape of a dancing hare, regarded as the mark of Satan. "Sadistic nuns, scatology, butchered animals, monkish rapists, and Satan" (Kirkus), as well as the village exorcist, inhabit this bawdy tale of perversion, power, possession, and the rape of innocence. Ducornet weaves an intricate design of fantasy and reality, at once surreal, hilarious, and terrifying.
language: English
title: The Stain
titlecomplete: The Stain
genres: 20th Century, Literature, American, Womens, Novels, Religion, Fiction, Horror, The United States Of America, Fantasy
ratings_count: 271
series: Tetralogy of Elements
publisher: Dalkey Archive Press