Black Umbrella Stories
$15

Reminiscent at turns of Angela Carter, David Lynch, and Isak Dinesen, Nicolette de Csipkay's debut signals a fresh, versatile talent worthy of wide attention.

"Nicolette de Csipkay's seductive first collection reveals a violently brilliant imagination at work."   Rain Taxi Review of Books

"This is a polished gem of a book. Exquisitely written, elegantly imagined, de Csipkay's stories are dreams hardened into dagger points. From the pleasure trip that becomes a little too Kafkesque to the floral sacrifice that turns deadly, de Csipkay's precise and dazzling prose twists and mutates, serpentine, from fairy tale to gothic horror, from banality to peril. Black Umbrella Stories is simultaneously enchanting and disturbing, and is an absolutely original debut."   Jeffrey DeShell