Songs of Shadow Words of Woe

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A fucking beauty of a book every story brilliant. -Kaaron Warren award-winning author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Underhistory</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The beach where his teenage sister disappeared / time and dream melt in the mouth of deep weird-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An open mic night bears witness to a fury / a life-changing performance before a dread jury-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A truck stop photo by a touring punk bassist / a chase across the country and her most personal places-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Seven friends mourn a beloved queer icon / a final bequest unleashes the deepest dark of an eidolon...</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Songs of shadow words of woe!</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A lonely film student attends a free indie screening / will this obscure flick bring the end he's dreaming? -Two wilful women climb a hill to watch a storm / and learn their town's history of racism and scorn-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grotesque gangsters in a burlesque club dive / trouble erupts when a new player arrives-</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Invited to experience true terror not a relic / a horror film fan runs through a theatre derelict...</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Songs of shadow words of woe!</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Thirteen morbidly melodic deep cuts from Matthew R. Davis including the Australasian Shadows Award-winning Steadfast Shadowsong and the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novelette Heritage Hill.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Elegant frightening and so delightfully strange this isn't just a collection-it's a cabal. -Aaron Dries author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dirty Heads </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Place for Sinners</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A powerhouse collection filled with rock and roll the uncanny the unsettling and the all-out terrifying. A few stories had me looking over my shoulder to see what was lurking in the dark corners of my room. -Jo Kaplan Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When the Night Bells Ring</em></p>