Sleep Alone

“J.A.W. McCarthy is a spectacular rising star in the horror genre, and Sleep Alone is a fantastic entry in her indelible and growing body of work. This fast-paced and creepy tale will rock your world and keep you on the edge of your seat. Highly recommended!” – Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals
“Instantly intoxicating. Sleep Alone thrives in a lustful, hungry ballad, where McCarthy’s horror beats with yearning hearts and carnal desperation. A classic trinity of sex, blood, and rock and roll.” – Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth
“Sleep Alone is a feral howl of longing for found family, a gory road trip, a sensual rock & roll adventure through human and inhuman hungers. McCarthy’s language satisfies like a gorgeous and intoxicating feast. While the book drips with insatiable desire, it also asks us in the most heartfelt way to take responsibility for our love in its many forms.” – Joe Koch, author of The Wingspan of Severed Hands
“A sensual, synesthetic tour through the dive bars of the Pacific Northwest with a most unusual band, Sleep Alone grapples with ethical questions about responsibility and care even as it revels in sex, drugs, and body horror. I couldn’t look away.” – Christi Nogle, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Beulah
“McCarthy’s all grunge, sex, and distortion in her latest offering Sleep Alone. You feel the bass reverberate through your bones, smell the sweat and sensuality of the downtown club buzzing with anticipation, and there—the eyes of someone, or something, coaxing you in as the van door slides open, but by then it’s too late.” – Scott J. Moses, author of Our Own Unique Affliction
“This queer rock ‘n’ roll road trip from Hell is an endlessly inventive exploration of desire, control, and companionship. Sleep Alone had me cheering for an encore.” – Eric Raglin, author of Extinction Hymns
“A beautifully dark and seedy tale, Sleep Alone reaches its tendrils into the reader and pulls them close, with an urgency and humanity impossible to deny or look away from. A story of monsters and people, of the harm we do each other when we can’t let go, and the sacrifices we make for family. McCarthy is a master storyteller.” – Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and Below

J.A.W. McCarthy is a two-time Bram Stoker Award and two-time Shirley Jackson Award finalist. She is the author of Sometimes We’re Cruel and Other Stories and Sleep Alone.

Her short fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Vastarien, PseudoPod, Split Scream Vol. 3, The Dark, and The Best Horror of the Year Vol 13.

She is a second-generation immigrant of Thai and Slovak descent and lives with her spouse and assistant cats in the Pacific Northwest.

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