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Into Bones like Oil

By Kaaron Warren
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In Into Bones like Oil, Dora finds herself at The Angelsea, a mysterious rooming house by the beach where sleep is deep and haunted. Seeking refuge from reality, she instead confronts restless spirits who communicate through the sleepers. Haunted by the loss of her daughters, Dora grapples with fear and longing, caught between the desire to hear them once more and the terror of their accusations.
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This atmospheric, haunting story will appeal to fans of dark fantasy and psychological horror, especially those drawn to themes of loss, grief, and supernatural encounters.

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People come to The Angelsea, a rooming house near the beach, for many reasons. Some come to get some sleep, because here, you sleep like the dead. Dora arrives seeking solitude and escape from reality. Instead, she finds a place haunted by the drowned and desperate, who speak through the sleeping inhabitants.

She fears sleep herself, terrified that the ghosts of her daughters will tell her it's all your fault we're dead. At the same time, she'd give anything to hear them one more time.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781946154422

Publisher: Meerkat Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 November 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Meerkat Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 139.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 149g

Pages: 90

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About the Author

Kaaron Warren's stories have appeared in Australia, the US, China, the UK, and elsewhere in Europe, and have been selected for both Ellen Datlow's and Paula Guran's Best of the Year Anthologies. Kaaron has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji. She has published five novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls. Her most recent short story collection is A Primer to Kaaron Warren from Dark Moon Books. Her novella "Sky" from that collection won the Shirley Jackson Award and was shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award. It went on to win all three of the Australian genre awards, while The Grief Hole did as well in 2017. In 2019, she has three Aurealis nominations: Tide of Stone, A Primer to Kaaron Warren, and Crisis Apparation, a novella. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. In 2018 she was the Established Artist in Residence at Katharine Susannah Prichard House in Western Australia. She was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy Convention in 2018, New Zealand's Geysercon in 2019, and Stokercon 2019.

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