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J.A.W. McCarthy

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J.A.W. McCarthy is a Bram Stoker Award and Shirley Jackson Award finalist and author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories (Cemetery Gates Media, 2021) and Sleep Alone (Off Limits Press, 2023). Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Vastarien, PseudoPod, Split Scream Vol. 3, Apparition Lit, Tales to Terrify, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 13 (ed. Ellen Datlow). She is Thai American and lives with her spouse and assistant cats in the Pacific Northwest. You can call her Jen on Twitter @JAWMcCarthy, and find out more at www.jawmccarthy.com. ...more

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	Sleep Alone 3.84 avg rating — 170 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Places We Fear to Tread by John Brhel (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Sullivan (Editor), Chad Lutzke (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What One Wouldn't Do: An Anthology on the Lengths One Might Go To by Scott J. Moses (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Laurel Hightower (Goodreads Author) (Introduction/Contributor), J.A.W. McCarthy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.29 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror by Jacob Steven Mohr (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.T. Madden, Patrick Barb (Goodreads Author) 4.29 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Graveyard Smash : Women of Horror Anthology, Volume 2 by Jill Girardi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christy Aldridge (Goodreads Author), Carmen Baca (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 113 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Five Minutes of the Apocalypse by Brandon Applegate (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Taryn Martinez (Contributor), Carson Winter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2023 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sometimes We're Cruel and Other Stories 4.56 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Woman Built by Man by S.H. Cooper (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elle Turpitt (Editor), Olivia White 4.35 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Trouble at All by Alexis DuBon (Editor), Eric Raglin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ariel Marken Jack (Goodreads Author) 4.41 avg rating — 59 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Twisted Anatomy by Grace K. (Editor), Sam Brunke-Kervin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Oliver Clarke (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 54 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The stories in Death Aesthetic craft stark poetry out of a world that is deeply unsettling even in its familiarity. Yet, in the face of man and nature’s cruelty, Rountree’s America preserves hope between its bloodstained teeth. This is an unforgettab ...more
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A highly anticipated collection that is everything I was hoping for. Gorgeous, dark, exciting, and full of women who refuse to reshape themselves into the boxes society has created for them. Yearning and strength in perfect balance.
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J.A.W. McCarthy rated a book it was amazing The Inconsolables by Michael Wehunt (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wehunt continues to be one of my favorite writers, and The Inconsolables has only strengthened that. I read this one slowly because I wanted to absorb every word, every lingering, unsettling, too-close-to-home feeling. He writes with so much beauty a ...more
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J.A.W. McCarthy rated a book it was amazing Mewing by Chloe Spencer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Mewing is an unflinching mirror of society’s obsession with women’s bodies and trauma. The pursuit of perfection—and acceptance—has a heavy cost, vividly rendered by Spencer’s adept slicing and dicing. This story is harrowing, gruesome, and a little ...more
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J.A.W. McCarthy rated a book it was amazing Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration by Ryan Marie Ketterer (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Welcome to Your Body makes it viscerally clear: no part of you is safe. From head to toe, disease to delusion, every inch of the human body is vulnerable and volatile, and these authors show that in a myriad of inventive ways. If you love body horror ...more
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In Song of the Tyrant Worm, time and place are stretched by Piper’s limitless imagination. The hopelessness and terror of the universe of The Worm are only matched by her keen understanding of humanity and our need for connection. A conclusion to the ...more
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Disclosure: I have a story in this anthology. Though politeness can be an insidious facade that shields a myriad of horrors, it's a difficult subject to write about. Every author here did an excellent job. Gordon B. White's "Thirteen Ways of Not Looki ...more
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A lyrical and vivid exploration of dark magic, twisted logic, and the desire for acceptance and love. The characters in Epiphany take the question “how far would you go to get what you want?” and follow it to extreme ends full of both wonder and horr ...more
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Sawtooth is a gripping story of devotion and survival against worlds both natural and unnatural. Nelson deftly demonstrates how grief can be just as vicious as the monster that stalks these pages.
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