‘Wonderful.’ Margaret Atwood
‘Genius.’ Patricia Lockwood
‘Remarkable.’ Joseph Heller
‘Perfect.’ Max Porter
”Immensely skillful’. Ursula K. Le Guin
‘Tender, erotic, singular.’ Carmen Maria Machado
‘Still outpaces, out-weirds, and out-romances anything today.’ Marlon James
‘One of the greatest short story writers we have.’ The Times
‘You are in masterly hands as Ingalls lures you into a swamp of violence and magic.’ Sunday Times

After a one-night-stand with the Angel Gabriel, a monk is transformed into a pregnant woman.
Lost in the fog, two visitors are lured into a ruined candlelit mansion.
A wife confiscates her husband’s homemade sex doll, only to demand her own.
Great-aunts warn of the deadly skin of the pearlkillers.
Rachel Ingalls’ incomparable novellas are masterpieces: surrealist, subversive, tragicomic. Prepare to meet what lurks beneath .

‘Macabre, fantastic and haunting . . . One of the most brilliant practitioners of American Gothic since Poe . . . Read her at your peril.’ Independent

‘Fables whose unadorned sentences belie their irreducible strangeness . . . In her vision of intimacy and interdependence, you’re simply not safe until everybody else is dead . . . Brilliant.’ New Yorker

‘Resists definition . . . Her work combines subtlety and horror, magic and stark realism, Greek tragedy and happily-ever-afters . . . Rare and fine. ‘ Guardian

‘Idiosyncratic, haunting, masterly . . . A modern fabulist making myths which explode into strangeness.’ Observer

Dorothy is a grieving housewife in the Californian suburbs; her husband is unfaithful, but they are too unhappy to get a divorce. One day, she is doing chores when she hears strange voices on the radio announcing that a green-skinned sea monster has escaped from the Institute for Oceanographic Research – but little does she expect him to arrive in her kitchen. Muscular, vegetarian, sexually magnetic, Larry the frogman is a revelation – and their passionate affair takes them on a journey beyond their wildest dreams … Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs Caliban is a bittersweet fable, a subversive fairy tale, as magical today as it was four decades ago

‘A miracle . A perfect novel.’ New Yorker
‘Every one of its 125 pages is perfect … Clear a Saturday, please, and read it in a single sitting.’ Harper’s

What Readers Are Saying:
‘Maybe the most gorgeous, lyrical book ever written’*****

‘A fantastic wee novel, strange and brilliant, and absolutely the inspiration for The Shape of Water.’*****

‘Wonderful, sharp minimal prose offers big truths. Superb – brilliant, in fact.’*****

‘Absolutely incredible. It’s weird, funny, and heartbreaking, like a Richard Yates novel except with lizardman sex.’*****

‘One of the best tongue-in-cheek social satires that I’ve ever read. It delves into gender politics. It takes a long, hard look at mental health. It addresses female sexual freedom and agency. It asks the reader to examine what it means to be human … Genius.’*****

‘Really brilliant: a deconstruction of suburbia by way of monster movies that examines sad realities with hilarious verve … Sometimes you need a sexy frog person to break you out of the ties that bind. ‘*****

‘Hooked me so deeply I picked it up and finished it the same night … Beautiful … Will stay with me.’*****

‘What the hell just happened?’*****