Six Dreams about the Train and Other Stories, by Swedish-Canadian author Maria Haskins , brings together twenty-three speculative fiction short stories-two of them previously unpublished-that span fantasy, science fiction, and horror, delving into the dark, the strange, the beautiful, and the uncanny points in between.
As author Angela Slatter says in her foreword, reading a Maria Haskins story feels like "the unexpected dragon in the sky.".
In each of these tales, people and creatures are rarely quite what they seem.
And in a stark landscape riven by magic and myth, an old Viking warrior is haunted by visions of dragons as she searches for her abducted son.
A string of mysterious deaths across the solar system pits two friends against each Other at the bottom of the North Sea.
Two women trying to defeat an ancient entity must first face down a world-famous rock star.
In a Canadian basement, two friends play a game that changes one of them into a terrifying creature.
AnOther dog travels to the underworld in search of his lost girl.
A dog traverses a post-apocalyptic landscape to save its pups.
A woman searches for her three children, facing her own doubts about whether she wants to be their mother.
In a village inhabited by humans and wolves, a girl rebels by turning herself into a cub.
A grandmOther disappears from her nursing home and only her granddaughter knows that she has disappeared into her own fairytale.
Here, a mother\'s vivid Dreams are haunted by the ever-present specter of a freight train.
Others take place on the streets of Vancouver; in a whispering circle of ancient stones on a high tor; and backstage at a rock concert.
Many of the Stories take place in the deepest parts of the woods, on the shadowy border between reality and fairytale.
Six Dreams about the Train and Other Stories, by Swedish-Canadian author Maria Haskins , brings together twenty-three speculative fiction short stories-two of them previously unpublished-that span fantasy, science fiction, and horror, delving into the dark, the strange, the beautiful, and the uncanny points in between
