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Laura Mauro was born and raised in London and now lives in Oxfordshire. Their short story 'Looking for Laika' won the British Fantasy award for Best Short Fiction in 2018, and 'Sun Dogs' was shortlisted for the 2017 Shirley Jackson award in the Novelette category. In 2021, their debut collection Sing Your Sadness Deep won the British Fantasy Award for best collection, and short story 'The Pain-Eater's Daughter' won the British Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction.

They are also a PhD candidate currently researching spectrality in Japanese horror fiction. Laura likes Japanese wrestling, Finnish folklore and Russian space dogs. They blog (very) sporadically at lauramauro.com and can also be found on Twitter: @lnmauro
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I'm so glad you enjoyed SYSD! I would highly recommend All The Fabulous Beasts by Priya Sharma, which has quite rightly won several awards. Get In Trouble by Kelly Link is slightly more fantastical but still has a strong sense of atmosphere, as does Singing With All My Skin And Bone by Sunny Moraine. One of my personal favourite collections in recent years is North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud.

Outside of short fiction, Bodies of Water by VH Leslie is deliciously eerie. And perhaps my favourite eerie novel of all time is Dark Matter by Michelle Paver(less)
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“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you, but he loves you. And you feel like you’ve done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you’re tired. You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and you’re trying not to tell him that you love him, and you’re trying to choke down the feeling, and you’re trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you’ve discovered something you didn’t even have a name for.”
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“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
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“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
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“The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear of clouds, seems to us simply the natural condition of the earth and air. When we think of the downs, we think of the downs in daylight, as with think of a rabbit with its fur on. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not: and we do not usually envisage the downs without daylight, even though the light is not a part of the down itself as the hide is part of the horse itself. We take daylight for granted. But moonlight is another matter. It is inconstant. The full moon wanes and returns again. Clouds may obscure it to an extent to which they cannot obscure daylight. Water is necessary to us, but a waterfall is not. Where it is to be found it is something extra, a beautiful ornament. We need daylight and to that extent it us utilitarian, but moonlight we do not need. When it comes, it serves no necessity. It transforms. It falls upon the banks and the grass, separating one long blade from another; turning a drift of brown, frosted leaves from a single heap to innumerable flashing fragments; or glimmering lengthways along wet twigs as though light itself were ductile. Its long beams pour, white and sharp, between the trunks of trees, their clarity fading as they recede into the powdery, misty distance of beech woods at night. In moonlight, two acres of coarse bent grass, undulant and ankle deep, tumbled and rough as a horse's mane, appear like a bay of waves, all shadowy troughs and hollows. The growth is so thick and matted that event the wind does not move it, but it is the moonlight that seems to confer stillness upon it. We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like the dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers. And its low intensity---so much lower than that of daylight---makes us conscious that it is something added to the down, to give it, for only a little time, a singular and marvelous quality that we should admire while we can, for soon it will be gone again.”
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Laura Mauro You're kidding! The author is someone my husband speaks to on a British football forum - they were talking about it and it sounded like something I'd like. Turns out I loved the book. What a small world it is!

(Lovely to hear from you, by the way!)
Laura/MissMonkeh


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Ellen H Hi, Laura:

You read Tails of a Country Garden ??? My brother-in-law wrote it!!!

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