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Before and Afterlives

(2013)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Awards
2014 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee)
2014 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection

Discover the haunting stories of Crawford Award-winning author Christopher Barzak in his new collection Before and Afterlives. These are tales of relationships with unearthly domesticity and eeriness: a woman falls in love with a haunted house; a beached mermaid is substituted for a lost missing daughter; the imaginary friend of a murdered young mother stalks the streets of her small town; a teenage boy is afflicted with a disease that causes him to vanish; a father exploits his daughter's talent for calling ghosts to her; and a wife leaves her husband and children to fulfill her obligations to a world from which she escaped. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Collection!


Genre: Fantasy

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