These Deathless Bones, Cassandra Khaw
These Deathless Bones, Cassandra Khaw
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These Deathless Bones
A Short Horror Story

Author: Cassandra Khaw, Theresa DeLucci

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tor Nightfire

Published: 02/11/2020

Categories: Fiction, Horror


Synopsis

"These Deathless Bones" is a short horror story by Cassandra Khaw, one of 35 entries in the audio horror anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

A tale about the Witch Bride, second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson.

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 Cassandra Khaw

CASSANDRA KHAW is the USA Today bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, The Salt Grows Heavy, Breakable Things, and coauthor of The Dead Take the A Train with Richard Kadrey. They are an award-winning game writer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on October 23, 2017

A chilling fairy tale horror short story, free here at Tor.com. It's a great short read for October. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: A familiar fairy tale setting: A witch of a stepmother nursing a secret hatred for her stepchild, an eleven year old boy who is the prince of their co......more

Goodreads review by aly on October 02, 2022

These Deathless Bones is a horror tale about the Witch Bride, the second wife of a King, and the discord between her and her young stepson. "I laugh, a little bitterly. There were many things I wasn’t supposed to do, or be. I wasn’t supposed to be someone’s second chance, someone’s happily ev......more

Goodreads review by Sara on July 25, 2020

A creepy little take of bones, revenge and one sadistic little prince. One of the best Tor shorts I've read.......more