Karin Tidbeck is originally from Stockholm, Sweden, and has been based in Malmö since 2007. She writes speculative fiction in Swedish and English. When she’s not busy producing fiction, she teaches creative writing and does occasional work as a text consultant. She’s an alumna of Clarion SF & Fantasy Workshop at UCSD. Learn more at 
Jagannath: Stories by Karin Tidbeck
Strange. Disturbing. Unimaginable, but imagined. Weird. Karin Tidbeck’s first collection of short stories, Jagannath: Stories, can be so described, but one must also include compelling. It is not usual for me to want to read story after story in a single-author collection in a single sitting, but here each story was better than the last, and I stayed up long into the night reading. This Swedish author, who translated her own work into English, has an odd mind that produces odd stories, stories that every lover of weird fiction needs to read.
My fascination with this collection started with the first story, “Beatrice.” It is about a man who falls in love with an airship — not in the way a man normally falls in love with a complicated piece of machinery, not as in, “He loves his 1964 Mustang,” but actual passionate, physical and emot... Read More
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