Owen King is the author of the novel Double Feature and We're All in This Together: A Novella and Stories. He is the coauthor of Sleeping Beauties and Intro to Alien Invasion and the coeditor of Who Can Save Us Now? Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories. He lives in Upstate New York with his family.
Owen King's The Curator is a rich read. Language, characters, and a
fascinating world combine to create an intensely satisfying
experience
*Charlaine Harris, no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of An
Easy Death, and the Sookie Stackhouse series*
Half fairy tale and half historical account of a revolution that
never was, Owen King's The Curator is full of sly humor,
sensuality, and strangeness
*Holly Black, no. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Book of
Night*
The Curator feels a little like Owen King somehow brought a
curiosity cabinet to life. There are terrors here, but also marvels
and delights, and a set of the most interesting characters I've met
in some time. Put The Curator on the same shelf as other classics
of the uncanny and uncategorisable, like Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
and Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast. I loved it
*Kelly Link*
King writes with witty verve.
*Entertainment Weekly*
Intricately plotted and gruesomely detailed... Darkly hilarious and
disturbingly moreish, this brilliant fantasy envelops us in its
hallucinatory reality, then grips like rigor mortis
*Daily Mail*
[Owen King] has a captivating energy, a precision and a fondness
for people that are rare . . . King loves people as well as
words.
*New York Times*
Brilliantly bizarre . . . hugely ambitious and original literary
cabinet of curiosities: waxworks, cat worship, magic, revolution,
and a brave and memorable heroine
*Anna Mazzola, author of Sunday Times Bestseller The Clockwork
Girl*
Extraordinary... Pulsating with love, betrayal and petrifying
darkness... Uncanny and richly delivered
*Sunday Post*
Richly imagined
*New York Times*
An intricate and fascinating book... the work of a writer who is
confident in his craft... His city is a panoramic creation, lively
and grimy and teeming with secrets... an impressive balancing act
of hope amid despair
*SFX*
Begins like an alternate world history, with the rich detail and
varied cast of characters giving it an almost Dickensian tone... A
tempting brew of realism, fantasy, whimsy and terror.
*Guardian*
A tempting brew of realism, fantasy, whimsy and terror.
*Guardian*
One of those books that straddles fantastic and modernist
literature in that it seems to be set in our world, seems to be set
maybe 100 years ago . . . And it's as magical as it is political
and beautifully crafted
*Neil Gaiman*
Reminiscent of Dickens with its highly descriptive language that
captures the essence of people and places... Extraordinary
*Irish Examiner*
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