num_pages: 256
description: Weird and wonderful stories of beauty and horror.Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner’s stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.In “Natural Limits”, a bereaved woman, contemplating the massacre of 11,000 virgins, comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and “Canary” search for signs of evil or innocence written on the body; a “canary” dies of toxic malice, while in “Daughters of the Game” and “The Armour of San Cereone”, body doubles stand in for saints and film stars.Here are fabulous images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction in an electrifying new collection.
language: English
title: Murderers I Have Known: And Other Stories
titlecomplete: Murderers I Have Known: And Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Chatto & Windus