David Garnett 1 hr 15 min read

One ordinary afternoon, without warning, Mr. Tebrick's beloved young wife is suddenly and completely transformed into a fox, and he must decide how to go on loving her.

David Garnett's 1922 novella is a small, perfect, quietly devastating fantasy that won major literary prizes. Elegant, strange, deeply moving. Read it for a masterpiece of the fantastic, a tender and terrible fable of love surviving an impossible metamorphosis.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

1 hr 15 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

R. A. Garnett