- mermaid, plague doctor, fairytales, eerie
From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairy tale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself. You may think you know how the fairy tale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own. Deep in the eerie, snow-crusted forest, the pair stumble upon a village of ageless children who thirst for blood, and the three 'saints' who control them. The mermaid and her doctor must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature if they hope to survive.
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Grave, bleak, relentless and overwhelming.
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Cassandra Khaw
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 128
- Publisher
- Tor Nightfire, Titan Books Limited
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781250830913
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Cassandra Khaw writes horror, video games, tweets for money, articles about video games, and tabletop RPGs. These are not necessarily unrelated items. Her work can be found in professional short story magazines such as Clarkesworld, Fireside Fiction, Uncanny, and Shimmer. Cassandra's first paranormal rom-com Bearly a Lady releases this year. She hopes no one will be very startled by A Song for Quiet when it follows the month after. This information is taken from Cassandra Khaw's [Goodreads bio][1]. [1]: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13994108.Cassandra_Khaw
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