The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle

Her fiction is by turns devastating, horrifying, and beyond beautiful. 'Without a doubt, Christi Nogle is one of my favorite new voices in horror. Behold the timelessness of these lives, these tales!' - Eric J Guignard 'Christi Nogle takes readers on a dark yet wondrous journey through perils, horror, and thrills in this extraordinary debut collection. Suspenseful, scary, addictive.' - Catherine Cavendish

The Best of Our Past, The Worst of Our Future transported me into unfamiliar and terrifying worlds where the usual laws of nature don't apply. 'Sophisticated, psychological horror that enfolds the reader in a shroud of fear. Read and then reread and be doubly rewarded!' - Ramsey Campbell 'An astonishingly original collection of dark tales - mysterious, haunting, challenging and disturbing, written in crystalline prose as compressed as poetry. Stories here may recall Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper,” Shirley Jackson’s “The Renegade,” or Kelly Link’s “Stone Animals.” The pieces range in genre from psychological horror through science fiction and ghost stories, but they all share fundamental qualities: feminist themes, an emphasis on voice, a focus on characters’ psychologies and a sense of the gothic in contemporary life. Their rural and small-town characters confront difficult pasts and look toward promising but often terrifying futures. Don't miss this book it's sure to be one of the very best collections of 2023.'- Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future collects Christi Nogle’s finest psychological and supernatural horror stories. With her collection, The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future, she's created something truly remarkable, the kind of horror that's filled with grit and heart.

Readers of “quiet horror” or “slow-burn horror” will enjoy this collection. The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future is whimsical and dreadful, verdant and sinister.

The Best of Our Past, the Worst of Our Future by Christi Nogle