Girl with Ears \u0026 Demon with Limp by Edward J. Rathke


Girl with Ears \u0026 Demon with Limp
Title : Girl with Ears \u0026 Demon with Limp
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ISBN : -
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 32
Publication : First published February 2, 2014

Girl with Ears & Demon with Limp is set in the same world as Twilight of the Wolves, but it’s more action oriented and focused on a single event. It’s also intended for a YA audience. It’s about a young girl who is kidnapped and thrown into a surreal castle that expands endlessly. Within the castle, she meets a lame insane man, and together they try to escape the castle and return to the light of the world beyond. Along the way they fight demons and the structure of the castle itself.

Blurbs:

Girl With Ears & Demon With Limp is a fast-paced, surreal rendition of a Medieval tapestry. Set within an infinite castle, from which a young wolven girl and an insane man wish to escape, it’s Kafka turned inside out. And like Kafka, these characters are seeking to make meaning for themselves in a world where meaning has vacated for other lands.
–-Christopher Barzak, author of Before & Afterlives

edward j rathke has given us a fable bright with language, an adventure story, a coming-through-pain endurance test – but most of all, a lovely and touching tale about the place two forgotten outcasts make for themselves in the world.
-–Amber Sparks, author of May We Shed These Human Bodies

Girl with Ears \u0026 Demon with Limp Reviews

  • Kyle Muntz

    Falling somewhere between Ico (the video game), Mervyn Peake and Borges, Edward J Rathke's "Girl with Ears & Demon with Limp" is a fresh, intensely inventive novella. It's a story written in gorgeous prose, overrunning with emotion, strange images and unconventional ideas. At its center are two characters: a young girl (with a tail), kidnapped and thrown into an infinite castle; and old man, chained inside the castle for hundreds of years. The castle is an alien, dangerous, sometimes grotesque place in an even stranger world (the setting of Rathke's upcoming novel, The Twilight of the Wolves), and this novella isn't just a great story, but an introduction to a much larger time and culture. It's a book with beautiful art, beautiful writing, and for one dollar I don't think anyone should pass this up.

  • Jazmyn

    This a great story of a girl stripped away from the world she knew into a dark abysmal castle just because she is different. While searching for a way out of the dark castle she encounters an old man who has been chained up for many years. The story is visually stimulating and poetic. Reminds me of Miyazaki thrown into the Dark Ages. The setting is very dark and dismal but the characters bring light and warmth to the story, a sense of hope in what seems a hopeless situation. Definitely worth a read.

  • Kathy

    Kind of got a Matt Bell vibe from this short novel, but it's also fully Rathke's own voice/vision. Kept thinking I would like a physical copy of this, with illustrations. The writing's lovely.

  • Edward Rathke

    I wrote this book. I enjoy it very much.

    The cover art was done by Jazmyn Mares.


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