Speculative fiction: August's best-written recent release

Read the opening pages from our pick below ^ Plus Part 38 of The Demon Inside David Lynch

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In today’s issue:

— ‘A slow mist unfurls to reveal crooked homesteads in its folds, waiting to be shed in a purging between orbs of fire and a fog that will blind the fishermen, that will catch them in their own nets while the sea’s creatures buck against the holes in the boats, sharing one eye, as their wives lose their bottom halves in fevered dreams’: the opening pages of the most stylishly written recent release in speculative fiction.

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