![]() The effect is spellbinding and establishes a masterwork in its totality akin to Harlan Ellison’s Deathbird Stories. ![]() Howard takes well-worn material like fairy tale, myth, Arthurian legend and the ghost story and finds the new in the cracks and crevices but, most consistently, by shifting perspective from a male to female point-of-view. The stories-13 in total-encompass this ambition to glorious result. Not belief in what is, but belief in what could be. They become unexpected, and require a braver sort of belief. ![]() In “Breaking the Frame,” the final story in her short story collection A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, Kat Howard offers a mission statement:
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