{"product_id":"the-measure-of-sorrow-stories-9781946154774","title":"The Measure of Sorrow: Stories","description":"Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Measure of Sorrow, \u003c\/i\u003e draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable 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; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle's insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in \u003ci\u003eThe Measure of Sorrow \u003c\/i\u003eelude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ. Ashley-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is a British-Australian author of dark speculative fiction and co-host of the\u003ci\u003e Let The Cat In \u003c\/i\u003epodcast. His short stories have twice won national competitions and been shortlisted seven times for Aurealis Awards, winning both Best Horror and Best Fantasy. His first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Attic Tragedy, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Shirley Jackson Award. His novella, \u003ci\u003eAriadne, I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e, is available now from Meerkat Press. J. gathers moth dust in the suburbs of North Canberra, tormented by the desolation of telegraph wires\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Meerkat Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50454453846290,"sku":"9781946154774","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d922a677-0d81-43f5-8d86-920f99fb652b.jpg?v=1729868263","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-measure-of-sorrow-stories-9781946154774","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}