For attendees to the Ashland Public Library Event with Christa Carmen and JW Ocker on Saturday, January 31 and moderated by Bracken MacLeod, please pre-order your books to ensure we have sufficient copies for everyone and we'll bring then to the event for you. Easy peasy!
If you are unable to attend in person, you may purchase a book to be signed or inscribed. Just reply to your order confirmation with any special requests.
Macabre desire.
The grotesque unease of longing.
Violence anticipated, violence realized.
Featuring sixteen pieces of short fiction—including three previously unpublished stories—Let Not Your Sorrow Die shows us what the darkest places reveal about what it means to be truly human.
In the Shirley Jackson Award finalist for best short fiction, a desperate girl and her father search for change in the cold night and instead discover even darker tragedy in the “Back Seat.”
A priest struggles to keep faith in his parishioners’ goodness, but when a child confesses a terrible secret to him, he is overwhelmed by “A Short Madness.”
One antique collector’s grim acquisition is an elderly woman’s gateway to a last encounter with lost love at the end of a lonely life burdened by “The Loneliness of Not Being Haunted.”
In “Memories of Me You,” an amnesiac sifts through recollections pieced together by a man’s desire to craft the perfect woman, finding instead her true identity in deconstruction.
An enforcer for an outlaw biker gang must fight to survive the wild force unleashed by a desperate man’s final act in “Pigs Don’t Squeal in Tigertown.”
From grisly atrocity tourism and the looming threat of the surveillance state to the inevitability of a hiker’s idyllic ending and the uncertainty of a final girl’s future, acclaimed author Bracken MacLeod brings to haunting life the fears of “random” violence, isolation, unwelcome connection, beginnings, endings, and all the terrors in between.
- Paperback: 278 pages
- Publisher: Bad Hand Books (September 2, 2025)
- ISBN-13: 979-8992483758