num_pages: 342
description: In Vile Affections Caitln R. Kiernan's seventeenth short fiction collection the boundaries of desire fascination passion and dread collide. That which is beautiful may easily be profane. Those who love us may devour us alive. A shadow may shine like a supernova. The eye of the beholder is God. In these twenty-two stories Kiernan's trademark range is on display taking us from submerged and monster-haunted dreamscapes to quiet bedroom conversation between lovers from unexpected and uncanny roadkill to an object lesson on the perils of picking up hitchhikers on rainy Appalachian nights.
language: English
title: Vile Affections
publisher: Subterranean Press