Our new sapphic horror novella by debut author Ivana Geček is now available in print and ebook!
Ivana Geček is a writer and comic artist currently based in Varaždin, Croatia. Horror, dark fantasy, and satire inspired by folklore are right in her wheelhouse. In her spare time she likes to read about cryptids, pick at the banjo, and watch good and bad horror movies.
The cheeky, bloody novella Bye-Bye Babaroga iz Ivana’s first solo book, combining her background of growing up in Zagorje, the remote (and idyllic) hillside region in the north of Croatia, and her love of over-the-top horror, with a good dose of humor.
If you’re into dark humor, corporate subversion, modern-day folk horror and sapphic ladies who have just had it with their constricting lives, jump right in.
Blurb
Getting a job at a plastic surgery clinic working with a man everybody calls “Butcher” wasn’t bad enough for Kaja—she had to go and join the company’s team building in the remote woodlands of Kalnik, too. Pestered by the heavy rain and heavier fog, all the while navigating booze, hunting, and more unwanted advances from her straight colleagues than could fit into the lodge’s hot tub, Kaja has a personal nightmare to deal with as well—the one who has been haunting her ever since she was a child.
Inviting an old wives’ tale into a modern-day marketing plan as her final chance of making it in the clinic is only bound to make it worse.
Because Kaja’s nightmare visitor seems to have followed along, too… straight back to the place where the legend itself began, bathed in the blood of a long-forgotten tale of sacrifice and forbidden love.
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“A beautifully unhinged tale of beating your repression to a bloody pulp. Satirical, bloody, tense, atmospheric, creepy, and romantic, the queer horror novella Bye-Bye, Babaroga will show you the worst of the beauty industry, the toxic corporate world, and oppressive societies, but also the most beautiful of human connections, and finding courage to live your life free of the damaging heteronormative expectations.” Antonija Mežnarić, author of Mistress of Geese
Shtriga Books 