All the Birds of Hell

Tanith Lee

Language: English

Published: Dec 1, 2004

Description:

During the nine months he spends as curator, Henrique Tchaikov witnesses the removal of one pair of frozen lovers from the dome of the Dacha, and the arrival of another.

In the fifteenth year of “Industrial Winter,” Henrique Tchaikov arrives as curator in a countryside dacha. In one of the towers, a pair of lovers has taken sleeping pills and committed suicide nine years ago and tourists would come to see their frozen remains. After the military removes the bodies, another couple commits suicide in the same bed and Henrique finds their bodies in the bed the next morning. Then he finishes his tour as curator and returns to the city to resume his life in the endless freezer.