One of 2024’s superlative debuts, a glorious creepfest reminiscent of speculative collections by Carmen Maria Machado, Mariana Enríquez and other children of Lovecraft ... The author’s technique is subtle but strikes with a bullwhip’s torque ... Williams expands the book’s contours much as helium fills a hot-air balloon, wafting us to the heights of his imagination.
A debut book so electrifying, so original, such an auspicious announcement of a major talent, that it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck ... The stories’ subjects seem to have bubbled up from a fertile, teeming, uninhibited subconscious, and yet the prose is precise, musical, and exquisitely calibrated for maximum effect.
Williams delivers intensity on page after page ... His prose is precise, witty and full of vivid imagery ... A powerful, unsettling, genuinely thrilling collection, one that singles Williams out as a must-read voice in fiction.
