<p><b>Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Awardin the short fiction category!</b><br><b>Finalist for TradeFiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book PublishingAwards!</b><br><br>John O’Neill’s gothic short stories, setin the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature andhumans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters aresurprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sisterteam of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountaintrails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family drivingwest; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear,has an unusual encounter with both technology andhumanity.</p><p><i>Goth Girls of Banff</i> is a superbcollection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those onan iced-over mountain road.</p><p><b>Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Awardin the short fiction category!</b><br><b>Finalist for TradeFiction Book of the Year at the 2021 Alberta Book PublishingAwards!</b><br><br>John O’Neill’s gothic short stories, setin the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature andhumans. The mountains are majestic and impassive. The characters aresurprising, bent, but also empathetic. Their survival is tenuous. A two-sisterteam of goth tour guides offers guided excursions up switchback mountaintrails; a paroled convict thumbs his way into the life of a family drivingwest; and an animal pathologist, while performing a necropsy on a grizzly bear,has an unusual encounter with both technology andhumanity.</p><p><i>Goth Girls of Banff</i> is a superbcollection, sharply written, with plot turns as consequence-laden as those onan iced-over mountain road.</p>