Doll Seed

""In Doll Seed, Michele Tracy Berger crosses genre and style to create scary sci-fi horror stories largely based on the lives and experiences of Black girls and women. Robust characters and magical storytelling make this collection stand out."" --Ms. Magazine ""Michele Tracy Berger’s short stories are off-key music boxes, a masterclass of atmospheric wonder and dread. Populated with a wicked roster of liminal beings—alien visitors and eldritch horrors, sentient dolls and cemetery ghosts—these stories draw uncanny scenarios around the human fear and longing at their core. I found in Berger’s collection the very thing I love most about speculative fiction: raw, uninhibited imagination, stunning in its breadth, poised artfully alongside great wisdom and compassion."" --Jen Julian, author of Red Rabbit Ghost ""Michele Tracey Berger has a voice like no one else. Her stories bring wonder and horror and hope as they explore family dynamics, womanhood, what it means to be Black in the United States, and all the highs and lows of humanity. I was gripped from the first line. I couldn’t put this book down."" --Julia Rios, Hugo Award Winning Editor ""Michele Tracy Berger weaves captivating tales that leave you feeling unnerved yet refreshingly challenged. It's like being given a tour through an alternate world painted speculative--every concept feels novel and tantalizing to explore because it doesn't shy away from viewing this new world through a racial lens. This is Black Mirror with the emphasis on Black."" --Vincent Tirado, author of We Came to Welcome You: A Novel of Suburban Horror