Wine and Rank Poison

Revenge. Best served cold. Here are ten stories involving most of the deadly sins: greed, lust, envy, wrath, and pride. Strange stories woven in time and place from Ancient Greece to 1929 Odessa, Italy to the modern United States...stories that mix reality, mythology, half-humans and the inhuman...

With the skill of The Borgia, Allyson Bird doles out vengeance in the strangest of places and circumstances.

Bull Running for Girls, Allyson Bird's debut collection, won the prestigious British Fantasy Society Award for Best Collection of 2009. Wine and Rank Poison consolidates her place in the weird fiction genre.