Book Description

"Ruppert is a master of atmosphere...it’s impossible to tell exactly when the comfortable reality she presents morphs into something strange, terrifying, and terrible"—Publishers Weekly In the twenty-one stories in Imago and Other Transformations there is faith, found and lost again. There are eldritch horrors and profane rituals. And there are characters caught in circumstances they thought they could control. A woman discovers the cost of the magic to resurrect her lost child. A husband struggles against hungry, old gods to win back his missing wife. A child wields a dangerous power his mother had long hoped to harness for her own. Plagues spread. Cities crumble. And the world that ends for some still goes on…