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J.A.W. McCarthy

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J.A.W. McCarthy is a Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award finalist and author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories (Cemetery Gates Media, 2021) and Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Vastarien, PseudoPod, Split Scream Vol. 3, Apparition Lit, Tales to Terrify, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 13 (ed. Ellen Datlow). She is Thai American and lives with her spouse and assistant cats in the Pacific Northwest. You can call her Jen on Twitter @JAWMcCarthy, and find out more at www.jawmccarthy.com. ...more

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	Sleep Alone 3.77 avg rating — 227 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
	Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror by Jacob Steven Mohr (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.T. Madden, Patrick Barb (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Places We Fear to Tread by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2020 — 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
	What One Wouldn't Do: An Anthology on the Lengths One Might Go To by Scott J. Moses (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Laurel Hightower (Goodreads Author) (Introduction/Contributor), J.A.W. McCarthy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.25 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse by Brandon Applegate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Taryn Martinez (Contributor), Carson Winter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 118 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Graveyard Smash : Women of Horror Anthology, Volume 2 by Jill Girardi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christy Aldridge (Goodreads Author), Carmen Baca (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 116 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
	Sometimes We're Cruel and Other Stories 4.53 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	A Woman Built by Man by S.H. Cooper (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elle Turpitt (Editor), Olivia White 4.32 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	No Trouble at All by Alexis DuBon (Editor), Eric Raglin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ariel Marken Jack (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 70 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
	Why Didn't You Just Leave by Julia Rios (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nadia Bulkin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shauntae Ball (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2024 — 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

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Urban’s stories are the horrors you can’t quite grasp, slipping and slithering just out of mind’s reach. They lurk in corners, crawl over your flesh, scratch at the back of your subconscious months later. Shaky Pictures of Vanished Faces is a showcas ...more
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I Contain Multitudes is an ever-shifting story about the power of the mind and the resilience of the spirit. With a skilled hand and an eye for action, Hawkins takes us on an adventure that proves human will is limitless.
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Waste Ground is a cosmic nightmare of fraying relationships and dogged determination converging in the mouth of a bizarre cult and the otherworldly entity they worship. Ruvolo keeps the action nonstop as he viscerally displays Portland’s underbelly a ...more
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Waste Ground is a cosmic nightmare of fraying relationships and dogged determination converging in the mouth of a bizarre cult and the otherworldly entity they worship. Ruvolo keeps the action nonstop as he viscerally displays Portland’s underbelly a ...more
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Grimes’s The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion is a southern gothic fairytale in purgatory, stitched with a talking possum, a child prophet, dead wives, glass hobbies, and alchemy. The bizarre tangles with explorations of purpose, loyalty, and class in this ...more
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The stories in Death Aesthetic craft stark poetry out of a world that is deeply unsettling even in its familiarity. Yet, in the face of man and nature’s cruelty, Rountree’s America preserves hope between its bloodstained teeth. This is an unforgettab ...more
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A highly anticipated collection that is everything I was hoping for. Gorgeous, dark, exciting, and full of women who refuse to reshape themselves into the boxes society has created for them. Yearning and strength in perfect balance.
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Wehunt continues to be one of my favorite writers, and The Inconsolables has only strengthened that. I read this one slowly because I wanted to absorb every word, every lingering, unsettling, too-close-to-home feeling. He writes with so much beauty a ...more
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