A brilliant and chilling collection of short stories that descends into the deeper recesses of the human mind and maps the bizarre and troubling byways of human history.
Dark, witty, and entertaining,
The Skull of Charlotte Corday: And Other Stories
returns insistently to the innermost dilemmas of femininity, spinning strange tales of medical humiliation, sexual betrayal, perverse eroticism, and the unsettling traumas of child rearing.