The Anatomists Mnemonic, Priya Sharma
The Anatomists Mnemonic, Priya Sharma
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The Anatomist's Mnemonic
A Short Horror Story

Author: Priya Sharma, Theresa DeLucci

Narrator: Ramon de Ocampo

Unabridged: 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

"The Anatomist's Mnemonic" is a short horror story by British Fantasy Award-winner Priya Sharma, one of 35 entries in the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

Life is laid out in lines: life, heart, and head. The lines of destiny, affection, and the sun are all there in the palm of your hand, but not all desires can be held.

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

About Priya Sharma

Priya Sharma’s fiction has appeared in venues such as Interzone, Black Static, Nightmare, The Dark and Tor.com. “Fabulous Beasts” (Tor.com) was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist and won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction. Priya is a Shirley Jackson Award and British Fantasy Award winner, and Locus Award finalist, for her short story collection “All the Fabulous Beasts” (Undertow Publications). Her novella “Ormeshadow” (Tor.com) won a Shirley Jackson Award and a British Fantasy Award. It was a 2022 Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire finalist. Her latest novella "Pomegranates" (PS Publishing) is a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award, a British Fantasy Award, and a World Fantasy Award. Her work has been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Czech, and Polish. More information can be found at priyasharmafiction.wordpress.com

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheryl

Whew. A very well written body horror story that was a little too body horror-y for me in the end. If you didn't know that Priya Sharma was a medical doctor in addition to being an author, you might not expect such precision. I had a suspicion of where the story was going, and it did indeed go there.......more

Goodreads review by Madhurabharatula

This story had a great hook. I liked the main character and his fetish though commonplace in horror fiction seemed to have been elevated and changed enough to hold my attention. However the sudden turn to violence in the end seemed forced and unnecessary, the narrative lacking any sense of foreshado......more

Goodreads review by Vitória

First of all, I would like to say that I love the writing of Priya Sharma. She is a very good writer and in this text, I realize this through the construction of the suspended in the narrative, her descriptions of the environment of the caravan in the funfair, and Beth's house, and the way she manag......more

Goodreads review by Stephanie

It started out with me going, Ok, he has a particularity to his fetish. I wonder where it will take him/us? It ended with me going, That was an unexpected extreme action! And, eew. And, good way to ruin someone's perfectly gifted career-cruel.......more

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