{"product_id":"let-not-your-sorrow-die-paperback","title":"Let Not Your Sorrow Die - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBracken MacLeod\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMacabre desire. \u003cbr\u003eThe grotesque unease of longing. \u003cbr\u003eViolence anticipated, violence realized.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing sixteen pieces of short fiction--including three previously unpublished stories--\u003cem\u003eLet Not Your Sorrow Die\u003c\/em\u003e shows us what the darkest places reveal about what it means to be truly human. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacLeod's fiction is full of traps - some physical, some psychological, none easy to wriggle free of.\u003cbr\u003e Terrence Rafferty, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBracken MacLeod is the Bram Stoker, Splatterpunk, and Shirley Jackson Award nominated author of the novels, is the author of the novels, MOUNTAIN HOME, STRANDED, COME TO DUST, and CLOSING COSTS (available in hardcover and paperback from William Morrow).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis short fiction has been collected in WHITE KNIGHT AND OTHER PAWNS and 13 VIEWS OF THE SUICIDE WOODS, which the New York Times Book Review called, \"Superb.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore devoting himself to full time writing, he worked as a civil and criminal litigator, a university philosophy instructor, and a martial arts teacher. He lives outside of Boston with his wife and son, where he is at work on his next novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.98 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53358058406253,"sku":"9798992483758","price":28.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1001\/0823\/9213\/files\/2iWuiA6Dii9798992483758.webp?v=1779321475","url":"https:\/\/cleanfreaklab.myshopify.com\/products\/let-not-your-sorrow-die-paperback","provider":"Clean Freak Lab","version":"1.0","type":"link"}