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Cor Hydræ (Heart of the Snake): Twisted Tales

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(Short Story Collection.) Constellating around the hermit Alphard, from the Arabic al-fard, meaning “The Solitary One,” named for the brightest star within the constellation Hydra—the largest in the night sky—which Tycho Brahe called “The Heart of the Snake,” these twisted tales are stitched together by questions of immortality and temptation.

Spanning vast geographies, centuries, and psychologies, the gothic grit and desolate dissonance of these absurd stories would best be classed among those defying classification, better exiled than at home alongside Horace Walpole’s eccentric Hieroglyphic Tales, yarns defying definition by rewriting it, if not exceeding expectations then conflating them with adrenaline-adulating anticipation.

These succinct curiosities weave in and out of Borden’s well-known, labyrinthine psyche, not so much consolidating but extrapolating on Jono’s many and varied esoteric interests which thread and pepper the book with a dark flavour those seeking to scorch an alternate path toward the light will savour.

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(Short Story Collection.) Constellating around the hermit Alphard, from the Arabic al-fard, meaning “The Solitary One,” named for the brightest star within the constellation Hydra—the largest in the night sky—which Tycho Brahe called “The Heart of the Snake,” these twisted tales are stitched together by questions of immortality and temptation.

Spanning vast geographies, centuries, and psychologies, the gothic grit and desolate dissonance of these absurd stories would best be classed among those defying classification, better exiled than at home alongside Horace Walpole’s eccentric Hieroglyphic Tales, yarns defying definition by rewriting it, if not exceeding expectations then conflating them with adrenaline-adulating anticipation.

These succinct curiosities weave in and out of Borden’s well-known, labyrinthine psyche, not so much consolidating but extrapolating on Jono’s many and varied esoteric interests which thread and pepper the book with a dark flavour those seeking to scorch an alternate path toward the light will savour.

 

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Halifax: Jono Borden Publishers, Inc., 2023

First Edition (October 17, 2023)

Rights Territory: Worldwide

CIPO Copyright Registration Number 1207111

Trade Paperback

ISBN-13: 978-1-990382-02-4

ISBN-10: 1-990382-02-9

12mo, 7 ½ × 5 ½ × 19/32 in. (19.05 × 13.97 × 1.49 cm)

xii, 195 p., 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)

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ISBN-13: 978-1-990382-01-7

ISBN-10: 1-990382-01-0

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ISBN-13: 978-1-990382-00-0

ISBN-10: 1-990382-00-2

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  • Hermits—Fiction

    Constellations—Fiction

    Hydra (Greek mythology)—Fiction

    Immortality—Fiction

    Temptation—Fiction

    Short stories, Canadian—21st century

  • Psychological fiction

    Short stories

    Gothic fiction

    Linked stories

  • FIC029000 FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

    FIC039000 FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical

    FIC027040 FICTION / Gothic

  • Magical Realism

    Occult & Supernatural

    Psychological

    Absurdist

    Noir

    Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

    Literary

  • PR9299.4.B673 C67 2023

    PS8603.O716 C67 2023

  • 813/.6—dc23

    819.154 B728c

  • Amazon ID: B00VLFL7BO (author)

    GoodReads: 24318181 (author), 243079265 (book)

    IMDb: nm6249977 (author)

    Inventaire.io: wd:Q136709886 (author)

    ISNI: 0000000401709564 (author)

    OLID: OL7227063A (author), OL48596191M (book)

    SoundCloud: jonoborden (author)

    Wikidata: Q136709886 (author)

    X/Twitter: @bordenjono (author)

    YouTube: @JonoBorden (author)

 
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