I Read Stories: Unseelie Brother Ltd by Fran Wilde

Unseelie Brothers, Ltd by Fran Wild in Uncanny

It is the week before the Season and the mysterious atelier of the Unseelie Brothers, Ltd has reappeared. It’s one of those shops that shifts about, mysteriously vanishes, goes again. It makes the best clothing for going to balls.

Strange things occur, but mostly, in general, the clothes are the memorable thing, and the odd disappearance, and amnesia, well these are just things that happen. So it spreads on social media like wildfire in high society. Vanessa Saunders is the first to get to it, with her daughter Rie and her niece Sera.

Vanessa, and her sister, have history with Unseelie Brothers. And Sera is studying fashion, and when the staff see her sketches they offer her a job.

The contract isn’t good and the dress shop is magic. But Sera has ideas about both, and may learn about her past too.

Read This: For a fairy shop story with peril and strangeness transplanted naturally into a modern setting
Don’t Read This: Fairies and the haut-monde are of no interest