M Shaw

"Explores the unnerving and grotesque with glee. Shaw's loose, easy style suits the stories like a glove. Fans of new weird horror will want to check this out."Publishers Weekly"Unforgettable, ominous, and provocative. Shaw is a voice to watch in Weird fiction."Library Journal, starred review"Dark elegies of loneliness and dissolution set in a world left dangling at the end of history. As an enquirer into the question of what it means to be human, M. Shaw is second to none."Nadia Bulkin, She Said DestroyYour new favourite assortment of New Weird Lit stories about car-vampires; fascist deer; memory-devouring tree gods; and the torment matrix; from Wonderland Award-winning author M.Shaw (One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve).At last we can confirm what you've always dreamed of: All your friends are here Why leave your apartment ever again? All your friends are here.Why go to outer space? All your friends are here.Why grow, or dream? Why take that vacation you've been saving up for? Why set yourself free?All your friends are here.Contains a novelette written especially for this collection, Ready Player (n+1).

Two halves of a human cadaver awaken on a cold morgue slab. The two distinct personalities, Left and Right, remember nothing of their previous life as a singular body. Bound by necessity to carve out an existence on the fringes of society, the two brothers have very different ideas of the life they want. Their impending schism will lead each on his own frightening path; one forward to a new life, one backward to the origin of their struggle. One Hand to Hold, One Hand to Carve is a Weird and surreal Body Horror journey that redefines familial bonds and what it means to be an individual.