I have the impression that a lot of Bulgakov has been hard to find, even if one did want to read it. Cut yourself some slack. If you'd seen other works, you'd have read them; even now, only having the Web is making it possible for you to find out what's available, right? And ILL may be your best friend in this.
Here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/20/there-once-lived-ludmilla-petrushevskaya-review) is a review of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's book, whose title I got approximately wrong. I think it was shortlisted for some F/SF thing also. I am not sure where I learned about it---TLS maybe---anyway, it's short stories, most of them about dead people, about death, about the interface between life and death, and about the enormous variety of ways there are to navigate in that. They're grim stories, fairy tales with rusty sharp edges that glitter enticingly. I recommend them. I lent it to someone already.
I was just reading the first Lucifer comic, and the last story in that, about a little girl who's murdered by someone and how her best friend goes on to try to avenge her death, is very Petruvskaya-ish, I think now, looking back at it.
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Here (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/20/there-once-lived-ludmilla-petrushevskaya-review) is a review of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya's book, whose title I got approximately wrong. I think it was shortlisted for some F/SF thing also. I am not sure where I learned about it---TLS maybe---anyway, it's short stories, most of them about dead people, about death, about the interface between life and death, and about the enormous variety of ways there are to navigate in that. They're grim stories, fairy tales with rusty sharp edges that glitter enticingly. I recommend them. I lent it to someone already.
I was just reading the first Lucifer comic, and the last story in that, about a little girl who's murdered by someone and how her best friend goes on to try to avenge her death, is very Petruvskaya-ish, I think now, looking back at it.