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Sara Tantlinger

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Sara Tantlinger is a 5x Bram Stoker Award nominee, and the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, as well as other works like To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Love for Slaughter. She is an active HWA member and participates in the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics

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	To Be Devoured 3.74 avg rating — 5,354 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkest Night by Lindy Ryan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Darcy Coates (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.62 avg rating — 1,099 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cradleland of Parasites 4.06 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes 4.67 avg rating — 143 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not All Monsters by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanna Roye (Contributor), Kristy Park Kulski (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 147 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love For Slaughter 4.14 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito (Contributor), Jo Kaplan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's City by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author), Matt Corley (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cyanide Constellations: And Other Stories 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Severance: Collected Dark Fiction by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author), Corey Farrenkopf (Goodreads Author), Jessi York 4.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sara Tantlinger wants to read Issues With Authority by Nadia Bulkin (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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What Remains is an incredibly heartfelt take on what it means to confront Earth’s potential collapse when human beings can be so very stubborn. Niles’ strength in crafting realistic, interesting characters who have to battle their internal demons, al ...more
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Thank you to Titan for the ARC! Another exquisite collection from Hailey Piper! From the return of a certain cannibal king to brand new tales, every story offers up a fearless focus that Piper does so very well. One of the reasons I always enjoy a Ha ...more
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“Can dead flesh hold anger? Mine would. Mine would be the most excruciatingly bitter of them all.”
― Sara Tantlinger, To Be Devoured

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“If I can’t fly away with the birds, I will settle for being another body they consume. Perhaps they will honor me, praise my skeleton and liquifying organs as I return to the earth as we all must. As we all deserve to do and nothing more.”
― Sara Tantlinger, To Be Devoured

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“It’s been too long, and I need her badly, need her to make me human again.”
― Sara Tantlinger, To Be Devoured

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“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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