Anthony NansonMay 9, 20181 minMysteries – Stories and Poems of Faerie by Chrissy DerbyshireChrissy Derbyshire is a master of style – lyrical and accessible, archly ironic, and yet at the same time charged with the sensual feyness of Faerie. The eight stories in Mysteries take tropes from myth and fairy tale and animate them, through the alembic of lived experience, with a potent contemporary spark. The ten poems also included in this collection do the same, in a more focused epiphanic way. In the literary cosmos, Chrissy’s work fits somewhere between Tanith Lee, o
