The Measure of Sorrow

Ten tales of dark speculative fiction explore the wonder and horror of a world just out of true. Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories in The Measure of Sorrow. A black reef holds the secret to a coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child. These intelligent and emotionally complex stories lift the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true. For readers of literary horror, weird fiction, and Australian gothic. Discover haunting stories of grief, loss, and transformation in atmospheric settings.