Muckross Abbey and Other Stories

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· Murray has been celebrated for her mastery of the macabre. A Carnivore's Inquiry (2004) was deemed ?a gothic triumph? (Seattle Times), earned Murray comparisons to Edgar Allen Poe and Patrick McGrath, and is Murray's bestselling book to date. Muckross Abbey will appeal to fans of Carmen Maria Machado's Her Body and Other Parties and Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic· Murray's first short story collection, The Caprices, won the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award. Like Murray's New York Times Editors' Choice Tales of the New World, Muckross Abbey will be published as a Black Cat original.· The stories in Muckross Abbey take place in England and Ireland, with the title story named after a haunted Irish monastery site that was the burial place of local chieftains and also inspired some of Dracula author Bram Stoker's work.· Murray's latest novel The Human Zoo received rave reviews in The Seattle Times, Glamour, The Observer and The Christian Science Monitor, among other places. Valiant Gentlemen was a New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2016, a New York Times Editors' Choice, a Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2016, and one of the Washington Independent Review of Books Top 25 Books of 2016· Murray is incredibly well-connected and respected in the literary world and very involved in the Asian American writing community. She was recognized as a UMass Amherst 2020 Spotlight Scholar, an award given to a faculty member working for positive social change. Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and Charlie Chan is Dead II.· Murray has judged major literary awards, like the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.