Reposted by S P Burton
It's a day ending in 'day', so I thought I should post about this collection of both the spectral and the bodily horrific: 14 stories of unease and alienation, bleak elation and despair. Ghosts and illness and pain and catastrophe. All the good stuff.
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I Would Haunt You if I Could — Undertow Publications
COVER ART: Jana Heidersdorf I would haunt you … The debut short story collection from Seán Padraic Birnie does indeed haunt. Sown with seeds of sorrow and grief, and imbued with disquieting bodily h...
![Image containing a text quotation, with the profile of a black cat, its paw raised, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from James Hillman, The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling, reads:
The Daemon:
“For centuries we have searched for the right term for this “call.” The Romans named it your genius; the Greeks, your daimon; and the Christians your guardian angel. The Romantics, like Keats, said the call came from the heart, and Michelangelo’s intuitive eye saw an image in the heart of the person he was sculpting. The Neoplatonists referred to an imaginal body, the ochema, that carried you like a vehicle. It was your personal bearer or support. For some it is Lady Luck or Fortuna; for others a genie or jinn, a bad seed or evil genius. In Egypt, it might have been the ka, or the ba with whom you could converse. Among the people we refer to as [Innuit] and others who follow shamanistic practices, it is your spirit, your free-soul, your animal-soul, your breath-soul.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x74slsd2biicwqwvuxon5dol/bafkreiaurxvtuo7tdkl42zqtxwircizm3b4zh6k5t7tuhrecjomghxcfie)
