British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voice in contemporary dark fiction, delivers a remarkable debut collection of startling short fiction. Human and humane tales of beauty, strangeness, and transformation told in prose as precise and sparing as a surgeon's knife. A major new talent!Featuring "Looking for Laika," winner of the British Fantasy Award, and "Sun Dogs," a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award.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....

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints: "Wiremother" by Laura Mauro"Sundown in Duffield" by Steve Rasnic Tem (reprint)"The Ribbon Rule" by Mae Jimenez"Big Boned" by Kristi DeMeester (reprint)