Nine stories. An experiment gone out of control. A birthday party with a mystery guest. A very vivid dream. The ultimate afterparty. A book from the future. An errant bullet. A healthy kind of sleep indeed. A hot date. Perhaps. A legend come alive. And also some demons, a parasite and a few zombies. Take your pick.
Irina Slav was raised on folk tales, classical myths and home cooked meals. She wrote her first supernatural story as a class assignment when she was 17 and got the critical acclaim of her Communication Studies teacher. Her first attempt at a novel left her horrified by the magnitude of such an undertaking but she was stubborn and a certain number of years later her first successful attempt at the long form, The Lamiastriga, made its way into existence. Between novel drafts, Irina also writes short speculative fiction and horror. Her stories have been included in several anthologies. Irina lives in Sofia with her husband and daughter.