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Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog: A Story in Cootie Catchers by GennaRose Nethercott Illustrated by Bobby DiTrani

Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog: A Story in Cootie Catchers written by GennaRose Nethercott illustrated by Bobby DiTrani

Every playing card story and poem published by Ninepin Press, including:

❖ The Family Arcana by Jedediah Berry, illustrated by Eben Kling. A gothic fable in cards and a 2015 World Fantasy Award finalist. ✯ The Family Arcana Supplementary Pack. Recipes and curiosities from the world of “The Family Arcana,” plus rules and cards for a trick-taking game. ❊ Cosmogram. A micro anthology of horoscope stories by Kelly Link, Victor LaValle, Alice Sola Kim, Jeffrey Ford, and others. ❀ Zodiac B by Travis Smith. Prose poems dedicated to fifteen lost constellations, including Felis the Cat, Argo the Ship, and Solarium the Sundial.

Plus:

✧ A download code for the audio edition of “The Family Arcana” and the instrumental soundtrack by The Suitcase Junket. ❂ Something so secret we can’t even tell you about it here.

Bufo, Felis, Globus Aerostatitcus, Noctua, Officina Typographica, and Triangulum Minus: six constellations stricken from the official charts in 1922 by a council of astronomers.

Now available for streaming or purchase at our bandcamp page: the audio edition of “The Family Arcana,” featuring one reader for each of the fifty-two cards.

We've been hearing reports of people purchasing copies of "The Family Arcana" to use as stocking stuffers. We would like to take the opportunity to recommend AGAINST this course of action for the following reasons.

1. Stockings are for familiar, comforting things. Candy, for example, and socks, and heartwarming scenes drowned in water and imprisoned forever in glass spheres. Discovering a copy of "The Family Arcana" in one's stocking on Christmas morning may induce feelings of confusion, uncertainty, and introspection, and even lead to bouts of singing, the recitation of poetry, and the composition of bizarre manifestos. Do you really want manifestoists roaming your house, smooching under your mistletoe, and adding strong opinions to your holiday punch? No, you do not!

2. "The Family Arcana" is currently prohibited from use in no states or territories anywhere in the world. But who's to say when that will change?

3. The stuffing of stockings is the sole responsibility of Gramtumpter-Paw, Lord of Elf-Folk and Protector of the Eight Sky Wallops.

4. If a copy of "The Family Arcana" gets stuck at the bottom of a stocking, you may have to reach your hand all the way down there, and then who's to say what will happen?

Free domestic shipping on all $20+ orders from Ninepin Press, now through Monday, November 30th.