Mara Joly

A fantasy anthology of 15 segments each dealing with a specific neighbourhood of Montreal and its signature idiosyncrasies. This terrifying tour-of-the-town captures neighbourhoods, buildings and iconic locations from North America's Amsterdam, shedding the straightforward storyline for a narrative melting-pot filled with demons, shadowy humanoids and disgusting otherworldly beings.

Beth is 31 and, since yesterday, single. She lives alone with an old cat found in her alleyway and barely makes a living working at her sister's café. Beth is also a robot. Beth is in a strange place, really.

An epidemic of yellow crawling brains threatens the lives of inhabitants in a reclusive Northern Quebec town.

Chief inspector Constance Forest and her team match wits with petty criminals of all kinds in the fog-shrouded North Shore of Montreal.

Two grocery store clerks find themselves in the midst of a mysterious invasion of yellow crawling brains that contaminate the population and turn them into zombies.

The story of a child abandoned at birth who is shunted around from foster family to foster family. Despite numerous pitfalls along the way, Olivier courageously and tenaciously learns to be confident about life, to accept the inevitable transitions and to hope for the better. His firm objective is to turn 18, be independent at last and have some control over his life without being beholden to anyone.