My second inspiration was Bulgarian history, and the Cold War in particular. I thought that made for a fascinating setting for a novel. Traditionally, the Foul Days are the days between Christmas and St Yordan’s Day when the new year has been born, but it hasn’t been baptised yet, and the spirits and monsters are free to roam the streets. Firstly, Bulgarian folklore is at the duology’s heart. The inspiration behind The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters was three-fold. Some of my favourite books coming from my end of the world are a mishmash of secondary world and urban fantasy, high and low, magic both painfully mundane and spectacular… and, of course, a dash of dark, Slavic humour. I’d hesitate to go any deeper than that and assign it to a particular subgenre-other than, perhaps, ‘Eastern European fantasy’. What genre is The Witch’s Compendium of Monsters?įantasy. Both it and the yet unnamed book 2 are coming out in 2024 from Tor Books. What’s the first book of the duology and when does it come out?
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