🎄🎁 DEAD INK ADVENT DAY 18 🎁🎄 If your tactic to escape Christmas-cracker wielding, Cadbury selection box-bearing, sherry-sodden relatives throughout the days you're compelled to host them is to bury yourself in a book, then DEAD RELATIVES by Lucie McKnight Hardy is the short story collection that'll assure you it could be much, much worse. Shirley Jackson-esque with a healthy dose of folk horror in the small town sense, as well as an emphasis on motherhood and the fragile body, DEAD RELATIVES and other stories are chilling and wickedly brilliant. The titular story depicts the regular arrival of The Ladies, dead relatives who appear to Iris and her Mammy in their big country house who must be appeased; followed by bizarre village customs in The Pickling Jar, and Resting Bitch Face, the undoing of an unhappy marriage. You can find DEAD RELATIVES at the link in bio and on the shelves of booksellers with good taste. #deadinkadvent2023 #bookadventcalendar #booksasgifts #bookgiftguide...