![]() ![]() I decided to start with the slimmer option…ĭatura is a very strange book, although for readers familiar with publications like Fortean Times, it is perhaps a little less strange that for those less familiar after all, the fictional New Anomalist magazine of the novel bears more than a passing resemblance to the fabled Fortean Times and its quest to catalogue and publicise the weirder reaches of humanity. Leena Krohn is a writer the VanderMeers, through their small Cheeky Frawg publishing imprint, seem to be working hard to bring into more prominence among Anglophone readers of the Weird they brought out Datura in 2013, and have since released a Complete Fiction volume. Especially when the legendary Voynich Manuscript is involved. Especially if you’re earing datura seeds. From a sunrise of automated cars working in silent precision to a possible vampire, she discovers that people are both odder and more ordinary than they might seem. Her mysterious publisher sends her exploring through a city that becomes by degrees ever stranger. ![]() ![]() ![]() Our narrator works as an editor and writer for a magazine specialising in bringing oddities to light. ![]()
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