DEMONDUST - author signing and reading / book launch event

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A splashing, boiling product of depravity, Demondust is a demon on the shoulders of its 15 stories. At times fantastical—others, a too-gritty extension of the body—these curated personal hells force us to confront our concepts of memory, sexuality, flesh, and other terrors.

“Demondust is a collection of the lustrous, of romantic idealizations, of the violence of love and obsession. It is equal parts strange and disturbing, yet alluring and seductive, following characters and stories that are unsettling and disquieting yet bewitches readers with a hypnotic voice that is impossible to escape.”

— Ai Jiang, author of Linghun and I Am Ai

“Equal parts profane and ecstatic, the stories in Pascale Potvin’s Demondust will lure you in with lean, lyrical prose, then scrape the insides of your soul with discordant notes of horror and heartbreak.”

— Patrick Barb, author of Pre-Approved for Haunting and The Children's Horror

"A bold, visceral short story collection, Demondust is, at its essence, a study on the human condition. The stories are wide ranging, spanning topics from love, sex, and desire to trauma, radicalisation, and mental illness. Potvin’s deft use of prose has a poetic, palpable rawness to it, and the narrative is propulsive and pacey. A stellar debut."

— Keshe Chow, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Girl With No Reflection

"A collection as intimate as it is unique, the stories of Demondust debride and flense themselves open for the reader’s delectation. Potvin’s debut collection creates horror from a claustrophobic interiority, inviting us into the slanted headspaces of the various characters who often find that the most horrifying revelation is not some cosmic conspiracy but rather the self parsing from its own contents the human animal’s most hideous capacities. At times transgressive, often timely, and always fresh, the stories of Demondust will leave you wishing you knew less about your own mind and body."

— Jonathan Louis Duckworth, author of Have You Seen the Moon Tonight? & Other Rumors

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