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Dear Sweet Filthy World
By Caitlín R. KiernanNarrated by Kevin Kenerly, various narrators, Xe Sands, Lauren Ezzo, Lisa Flanagan, Natasha Soudek, Neil Hellegers, Paul Woodson, Natalie Naudus, Chelsea StephensLength13h 5m
About this audiobook
What exactly is the difference between a love letter and a suicide note? Is there really any difference at all? These might be the questions posed by Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlin R. Kiernan’s fourteenth collection of short fiction, comprised of twenty-eight uncollected and impossible-to-find stories.
Treading the grim places where desire and destruction, longing and horror intersect, the author rises once again to meet the high expectations she set with such celebrated collections as Tales of Pain and Wonder, To Charles Fort, With Love, and the World Fantasy Award–winning The Ape’s Wife and Other Stories. In these pages you’ll meet a dragon’s lover, a drowned vampire cursed always to ride the tides, a wardrobe that grants wishes, and a lunatic artist’s marriage of the Black Dahlia and the Beast of Gévaudan. You’ll visit a ruined postindustrial Faerie, travel back to tropical Paleozoic seas and ahead to the far-flung future, and you’ll meet a desperate writer forced to sell her memories for new ideas. Here are twenty-eight tales of apocalypse and rebirth, of miraculous transformation and utter annihilation. Here is the place where professing your undying devotion might be precisely the same thing as signing your own death warrant or worse.
The stories in Dear Sweet Filthy World were first published in the subscription-only Sirenia Digest, run by Caitlin for her most devoted readers. This publication marks the first availability to the general public for most of these rare tales.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (178)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenreGeneral Fiction
Length13 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byKevin Kenerly, various narrators, Xe Sands, Lauren Ezzo, Lisa Flanagan, Natasha Soudek, Neil Hellegers, Paul Woodson, Natalie Naudus, Chelsea Stephens
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateApr 24, 2021
LanguageEnglish
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