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Celebrating Women In Horror

February 20, 2016 Laura Mauro3 Comments

it's Women In Horror month, and since I am a Woman In Horror I thought I'd pick a few of my favourite tales by my fellow horror-writing women to share with you all. These are by no means the only stories I'd recommend - I could sit here all day and tell you about the… Continue reading Celebrating Women In Horror

On Shadows and Tall Trees

September 25, 2014 Laura MauroLeave a comment

I read the news about Shadows and Tall Trees going on indefinite hiatus with a heavy heart. It really is a huge loss for all readers and writers of horror and dark fiction. Shadow and Tall Trees was a beautifully presented publication, providing short fiction from writers as prolific and important to the genre as Gary McMahon,… Continue reading On Shadows and Tall Trees

on writing women, and why I do it

April 12, 2014 Laura MauroLeave a comment

I recognise that I've been somewhat lax in actually utilising this blog for...well, for blogging, and that's due in part to me daring to go on holiday, but also because I forgot I had a blog. So I wanted to talk a little bit about writing female characters. It was pointed out to me that… Continue reading on writing women, and why I do it

Sometimes People Say Nice Things:

“Mauro has a lot of literary knack on top of her weird fiction capacities making her stories well formed, beautiful, sometimes scary and always strange. The strangeness is magical as a reader because it deliberately alters your perception, rendering you more curious and open to what a story has to say.” – Gemma Webster, Fiction Unbound

“Mauro distorts quaint divides between the inhuman and the human too; often a source of deep anxiety, but also of curiosity about ourselves unexpectedly exposed as alien, as always having been alien.” – Rowan Fortune, Medium.com

“Sing Your Sadness Deep, will have you running through every emotion, from joy to despair, from warmth to revulsion, with its transcendent look at the human condition.” – Ginger Nuts of Horror

“Personally, I think that love and acceptance take the center stage in many of the stories that Mauro writes. Mauro weaves love through the horror of many of the stories which such ease which says a lot about her as a writer.” – Toni the Reader

“It’s easy enough to state that the debut collection by Laura Mauro, Sing Your Sadness Deep (Undertow), is a work of fine and accomplished writing, as near to flawless in its execution as you might wish for. Her language is evocative but clear; her characterisation is compelling.” – Grey Dog Tales

“With its well-honed prose, this collection shows us a writer who is focused intimately on the seams in a naturalistic present through which otherworldly pains—and a few pleasures—leak.” – Locus Magazine

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