Peace in the Land of the Dead: Stories

Lian Dousel

WHERE THE EVERYDAY BLURS INTO THE SUPERNATURAL: Meet a demon who comforts its victim before possessing her, a live-in maid plotting quiet revenge, and a sceptic who falls in love with a spirit he set out to disprove.

In Peace in the Land of the Dead, Lian Dousel's stunning debut collection, twelve stories carry readers to Manipur, where reality is blurred, heightened and transformed by the surreal. Our protagonists encounter demons that decide their fate and hear laments of sentient woodlands, wonder 'what if' and find out too late, and confront us with the fragility and endurance of human life.

HORROR, COMEDY AND TRAGEDY IN EQUAL MEASURE: A genre-blending collection that moves between the eerie, the darkly funny and the deeply human, never settling into just one register.

PERFECT FOR READERS OF literary horror, magical realism, and contemporary Indian short fiction

""A thoughtful, memorable, affecting collection."" — Janice Pariat