Those Fantastic Lives Recommended for Halloween at Electric Literature

Thank you to Jo over at Electric Literature for including Those Fantastic Lives on the recommended reading list for Halloween. This is so, so cool and a real honor to be among other writers who I admire. Thank you!!

Stalking the pages of Those Fantastic Lives are teenage werewolves communicating via a lengthy email chain, polygamous merfolk dealing with the turmoil of a new addition to their already-crowded marriage, and children who mysteriously sprout wings and fly away as their parents try to cling on. Bradley Sides uses magical realism to imbue everyday moments in his stories with a sense of eeriness and dread, but the true hauntings aren’t the ghostly apparitions with sharp bared fangs, but the emotional ghosts that we’re trying to outrun.

-Electric Literature