You Will Grow Into Them
Malcolm Devlin
‘A collection of immaculately written tales that deftly mix darkness with a playful imagination. The results are stories that are as entertaining and humane as they are deeply unsettling. We need more stories in the world like these.’
– Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts
‘Devlin’s collection, like Andrew Michael Hurley’s The Loney before it, is set to become one of the decade’s landmarks of English weird.’
– Nina Allan, author of Conquest
Malcolm Devlin’s debut short-fiction collection, first published in 2017, announced the arrival of a major new talent in the worlds of weird fiction and literary horror.
In You Will Grow Into Them, change is the only constant. These ten stories tackle the unease of transformation, growth, and change in a world where the mundane is only a veneer hiding the darkness below. Childhood anxieties manifest as degraded doppelgängers; fungal blooms are harvested from the backs of dancers; and lycanthropes become the new social pariahs.
In You Will Grow Into Them, the demons we carry inside us are very real indeed.
Praise for You Will Grow Into Them
‘This debut collection of stories by Malcolm Devlin is one of the best I’ve read in years. By turns subtle, tender and brutal, and full of the sort of beauty one only finds in the heart’s darkest corner, You Will Grow Into Them made me both jealous and grateful. Stories like this are exactly why I love to read.’
– Nathan Ballingrud, author of North American Lake Monsters
‘Filled with stories that are deceptively simple and perilously elegant. They look like fairy tales, but aren’t really – In fact they are best described as a precise alchemy of language. Perfectly pitched, thoroughly disquieting, You Will Grow Into Them is like a light in the darkness that might lead you home or lure you from the path. Malcolm Devlin is one of our finest voices.’
– Angela Slatter, author of Sourdough
‘Malcolm Devlin’s work feels as if it sprung directly from the compost of ’70s folk horror, finding inspiration — and a renewed vigor — in the tropes and assumptions of authors such as Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Holdstock, and Joan Aiken.’
– LA Review of Books
About the Author
Malcolm Devlin is the author of And Then I Woke Up (2022), Engines Beneath Us (2019) and the collections You Will Grow Into Them (2017) and Unexpected Places to Fall From (2021). His short fiction has been published in Interzone, Black Static and Shadows and Tall Trees. He currently lives in Brisbane, Australia.
Paperback ISBN: 9781914391156
Ebook ISBN: 9781914391163
Publication date: April 2023
Formats: Paperback / eBook