I used to creep around the haunted woods of New York, but now I creep around the apartment I share with my wife in Maryland.

I’ve had stories in Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Daily Science Fiction, The Arcanist, Flash Fiction Online, Tales to Terrify, and numerous anthologies. I’m never sure how to answer once my books have been stated, but in a nutshell: I’m Hailey Piper, and I write horror and dark fiction. For our readers who aren’t yet familiar with your work, however, could you introduce yourself? Find Hailey on Twitter via or at .įirst off, congratulations on a very busy 2020! Last year saw the release of two books- Benny Rose, The Cannibal King (Unnerving Press) and The Worm and His Kings (Off Limits Press)-as well as quite a few short stories. Once hailing from the haunted woods of New York, she now lives with her wife in Maryland, where they spend weekends summoning goat monsters and singing to the moon. She is a member of the HWA, and her short fiction appears in Daily Science Fiction, Flash Fiction Online, The Arcanist, Dark Matter Magazine, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and elsewhere.

She loves Finnish folklore, Japanese wrestling and Russian space-dogs.Hailey Piper is the author of The Worm and His Kings, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, and more. Her short story 'Sun Dogs' was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist, and 'Looking for Laika' won the 2018 British Fantasy Award in Short Fiction. Her debut novella Naming the Bones was published in 2017. Born in London, England, her stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Dark, and a variety of anthologies. L aura M auro started writing short fiction in 2012 and hasn't stopped since. A major new talentįeaturing 'Looking for Laika,' winner of the British Fantasy Award, and 'Sun Dogs,' a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. Human and humane tales of beauty, strangeness, and transformation told in prose as precise and sparing as a surgeon's knife. British Fantasy Award-winning author, and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro, a leading voice in contemporary dark fiction, delivers a remarkable debut collection of startling short fiction.

Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro