“National Book Award winner Eliza Victoria has carved a snug niche in stories about things that go bump in the night, and her being a dab hand is evident in her latest book, a collection of tales of the macabre and disturbing…” – Alma Anonas-Carpio
“Fans of all things creepy or chilling will delight in Eliza Victoria’s collection of stories.” – Lifestyle Asia
“The hauntingly beautiful cover and designs by Aaron Asis immediately draw the reader’s attention. The title story is a baffling, disturbing one built on jarring images of life in the US and in the home country.” – Philippine Daily Inquirer, Our 20 Favorite Books of 2022
In this highly anticipated follow-up to 2012’s A Bottle of Storm Clouds, award-winning author Eliza Victoria returns with seventeen stories of displacement, disillusionment, desperation, and loneliness.
In Seventeen Prayers to the Many-Eyed Mother, characters seek solace—wittingly or unwittingly—in forces beyond human comprehension. A young woman agrees to make a blood sacrifice in exchange for an American visa. Strangers find themselves stuck in a fatal time loop in a convenience store. A plane crash survivor on a deserted island believes a deity’s name has been carved into the rocks. A broke tourist meets a being untouched by time and space. Diwata, in hopes of assimilation into human society, agree to have their wings surgically removed. And within the darkness of an old mansion, a figure in white appears by the doorway…
This collection includes stories that have previously appeared in critically acclaimed publications including Apex Book of World SF, The Dark, Fireside Fiction, Daily Science Fiction, Philippine Speculative Fiction, Likhaan: The Journal of Contemporary Philippine Literature, and LONTAR: The Journal of Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction.
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Published by Avenida Books, May 2022
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