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    These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original

    By Cassandra Khaw

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

    At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 26, 2017
    ISBN9781250162601
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    These Deathless Bones: A Tor.com Original
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    Cassandra Khaw

    Cassandra Khaw is a scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal. Her fiction has been nominated for the Locus Award and the British Fantasy Award, and her game writing has won a German Game Award. You can find her short stories in places like F&SF, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Her novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth is coming out from Nightfire, the new Tor horror imprint in 2021.

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    • 3/5
      I'm not usually a short story fan, but this one rocked. Thanks Tor for making this available.
    • 3/5
      It was going well, if disturbingly, and then it suddenly ended. The end felt totally abrupt. It reminded me of sex with people who are great at foreplay but just can't close the deal.
    • 5/5
      At this point I've realized I will pretty much invariably love whatever Cassandra Khaw writes. Her style is so consistently good.