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Featuring sixteen pieces of short fiction—including three previously unpublished stories—Let Not Your Sorrow Die shows us what the darkest places reveal about what it means to be truly human.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.
Genre: Horror
Featuring sixteen pieces of short fiction—including three previously unpublished stories—Let Not Your Sorrow Die shows us what the darkest places reveal about what it means to be truly human.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.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"Let Not Your Sorrow Die, otherwise known as The Brutality of Bracken, is the omitted sixty-seventh book from the Bible, a wrathful assortment of tales better told with your fists than words, given that MacLeod bloodied his knuckles while writing them. These stories punch you straight in the face with every flip of the page." - Clay McLeod Chapman
"Like all the very best short fiction, Bracken McLeod's stories haunt you long after the final word -- hammered home with an act of violence; inveigling their way into your dreams with a shock; sneaking into your subconscious via awful sadness or heartrending loss. Sometimes surprising, often upsetting, always beautifully imagined, this is without doubt one of the year's best collections." - Tim Lebbon
"Are you ready? Take a deep breath. Sign the waiver. Enter the dark. The fearless and wildly talented Bracken Macleod is going to spike your adrenaline and hurt your heart. Let Not Your Sorrow Die is a haunting, beautiful collection that tours you the best and worst of the human condition and leaves a shadow in you like a bruise." - Benjamin Percy
"With this collection, MacLeod offers up a powerful array of ferocious, toothsome tales -- but these are not just stories, but strips and slices of the darkest parts of the human heart. This is horror working well below the surface, at a deeper level. And it is, to my demerit, the first MacLeod I've read, but it sure won't be the last." - Chuck Wendig
"Like all the very best short fiction, Bracken McLeod's stories haunt you long after the final word -- hammered home with an act of violence; inveigling their way into your dreams with a shock; sneaking into your subconscious via awful sadness or heartrending loss. Sometimes surprising, often upsetting, always beautifully imagined, this is without doubt one of the year's best collections." - Tim Lebbon
"Are you ready? Take a deep breath. Sign the waiver. Enter the dark. The fearless and wildly talented Bracken Macleod is going to spike your adrenaline and hurt your heart. Let Not Your Sorrow Die is a haunting, beautiful collection that tours you the best and worst of the human condition and leaves a shadow in you like a bruise." - Benjamin Percy
"With this collection, MacLeod offers up a powerful array of ferocious, toothsome tales -- but these are not just stories, but strips and slices of the darkest parts of the human heart. This is horror working well below the surface, at a deeper level. And it is, to my demerit, the first MacLeod I've read, but it sure won't be the last." - Chuck Wendig
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