Sing Your Sadness Deep

by Laura Mauro

Overview

Winner - British Fantasy Award for Best Collection! Laura Mauro delivers a remarkable debut collection of startling short fiction. Dark tales of beauty, strangeness, and transformation told in prose as precise and sparing as a surgeon's knife.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781988964133
Publisher:	Undertow Publications
Publication date:	06/04/2019
Pages:	236
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Laura Mauro started writing short fiction in 2012 and hasn't stopped since. Born in London, England, her stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Dark, and a variety of anthologies. Her debut novella Naming the Bones was published in 2017. Her short story Sun Dogs was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and Looking for Laika won the 2018 British Fantasy Award in Short Fiction. She loves Finnish folklore, Japanese wrestling and Russian space-dogs. She tweets at @lauranmauro.

Table of Contents

Sun Dogs

Obsidian

Red Rabbit

Letters from Elodie

The Grey Men

Ptichka

When Charlie Sleeps

In the City of Bones

The Looking Glass Girl

In the Marrow

Looking for Laika

Strange as Angels

The Pain-Eater’s Daughter

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Advance Praise for Sing Your Sadness Deep

"Laura Mauro's SING YOUR SADNESS DEEP is a beautiful foray into the strange and uncanny. She digs deep into the psyche of her characters, revelling in the mysteries that propel them through their confrontations with the liminal and the bizarre. A sublime and haunting debut."

-- Simon Strantzas, author of NOTHING IS EVERYTHING

"Laura Mauro does indeed sing her sadness deep, with assured melodies, strange resonances and beautiful harmonies. This is just her first collection--I can't wait to see what she will do next."

-- Priya Sharma, author of ALL THE FABULOUS BEASTS

"Laura Mauro's work exists in the hard space where the mythic collides with the everyday, where fairy tales transform into stories that feel modern and urgent. These are horror stories, yes--but it's horror born from a cry for compassion and understanding. Disturbing and heartfelt, beautiful yet grotesque, they reveal strange new worlds whilst shining a light on the world we think we know."

--Robert Shearman, author of TINY DEATHS

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