Goth Girls of Banff gathers dark, precisely written short stories set against the indifferent grandeur of the Canadian Rockies. John O'Neill's prose blends quiet dread with moments of surprising empathy.

The collection follows marginal figures — goth tour guides, a parolee who drifts into a family's life, and an animal pathologist — whose encounters reveal the violence and fragility threaded through both nature and human lives.

Stories move from tense mountain excursions to an unsettling necropsy that blurs technology and humanity; plot turns often carry tangible moral consequence.

Shortlisted for a 2021 ReLit Award and a finalist at the 2021 Alberta Book Publishing Awards, the volume (NeWest Press, 2020) will appeal to readers of gothic and literary short fiction.

• Themes: nature and human violence
• Tone: gothic, spare, empathetic
• Setting: Canadian Rockies

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