This speculative fiction compilation, lyrical and tender, quirky and cutting, weaves the fantastic and the horrific alongside the touchingly human. Perplexing and absorbing, the stories lift the veil of reality to expose the realms of what lies beyond with creatures that shed their skin and roam the night, vampires in Mexico City that struggle with disenchantment, an apocalypse with giant penguins, legends of magic scorpions, and tales of a ceiba tree surrounded by human skulls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cSilvia Moreno-Garcia\u2019s stories are sensitive and haunting portraits of worlds where the impossible and the real live side by side. Hers is a rare and wonderful talent.\u201d \u2014Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama<\/em><\/p>\n

Third printing in 2022.<\/p>\n

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This Strange Way of Dying<\/em> is an exceptional debut collection, and was a finalist for the Sunburst Award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Spanning a variety of genres \u2013 fantasy, science fiction, horror \u2013 and time periods, these short stories are infused with Mexican folklore yet firmly rooted in a reality that transforms as the fantastic erodes the rational.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Moreno-Garcia was a winner of Exile\u2019s first annual Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Award (the story published in CVC1 \/ The Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Anthology: Book One<\/em>). Years 1 through 10 sponsored by the American philanthropist Gloria Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n
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