Devilish Obsessions

Saturday, October 12, 2024 3:30 PM EDT
Off-Campus Location, Old Town Hall - 3999 University Drive, Fairfax

Ananda Lima and Constance Sayers take readers to dark and surprising places. In Lima’s linked story collection Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil, a writer sleeps with the devil at a Halloween party, and then continues seeing him for the rest of her life. Publishers Weekly says, “The stories, and the stories within those stories, connect to some of the cruelest portions of the human experience with uncommon warmth and wit.” In Sayers’s The Star and the Strange Moon, an actress is pulled into an experimental horror film in 1968. Almost forty years later, a film student is obsessed with uncovering the truth of the actress’s disappearance. Paulette Kennedy calls it, “At once a sweeping tale of dark magic, artistic obsession, and a love unbound from the limits of time.”