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Sara Tantlinger

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Poetry, Horror

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Sara Tantlinger is the author of the Bram Stoker Award-winning The Devil’s Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes, and the Stoker-nominated works To Be Devoured, Cradleland of Parasites, and Not All Monsters. Along with being a mentor for the HWA Mentorship Program, she is also a co-organizer for the HWA Pittsburgh Chapter. She embraces all things macabre and can be found lurking in graveyards or on Twitter @SaraTantlinger, at saratantlinger.com and on Instagram @inkychaotics

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Average rating: 3.92 · 8,295 ratings · 2,381 reviews · 65 distinct works • Similar authors

	To Be Devoured 3.82 avg rating — 3,837 ratings — published 2019 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga by Lindy Ryan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christina Henry (Goodreads Author) (Foreword), Gwendolyn Kiste (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 617 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Word Horrors: An Anthology of Horror Drabbles by Kevin J. Kennedy (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Amy Cross (Goodreads Author), John Dover (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.89 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cradleland of Parasites 4.07 avg rating — 227 ratings — published 2020 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Dreamland: Poetry Inspired by H.H. Holmes 4.69 avg rating — 137 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not All Monsters by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joanna Roye (Contributor), K.P. Kulski (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.16 avg rating — 138 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love For Slaughter 4.23 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's City by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author), Matt Corley (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chromophobia: A Strangehouse Anthology by Women in Horror by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Frances Lu-Pai Ippolito (Contributor), Jo Kaplan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.39 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2022 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seasons of Severance: Collected Dark Fiction by Sara Tantlinger (Goodreads Author), Corey Farrenkopf (Goodreads Author), Jessi York 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark

by Cassandra Peterson

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Negative Space

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Still Water

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I struggled a bit with this one. I love folk horror, but a lot of the stories were just a little dry and slow, so I had trouble getting into it -- I think the anthology is edited well, and it will likely resonate stronger with other readers, so it's ...more
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I really loved listening to RuPaul narrate The House of Hidden Meanings. I struggle paying attention to audiobooks, but RuPaul might be the one to make me try another in the future. It was so powerful to listen to his story in his own words, and to g ...more
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This is such a gorgeous collection of dark verse, with many raw and poignant reflections on various aspects of womanhood, motherhood, trauma, body horror, and more. Well-crafted and full of thought, these lines are beautiful and haunting -- the extra ...more
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“Can dead flesh hold anger? Mine would. Mine would be the most excruciatingly bitter of them all.”
― Sara Tantlinger, To Be Devoured

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“If I can’t fly away with the birds, I will settle for being another body they consume. Perhaps they will honor me, praise my skeleton and liquifying organs as I return to the earth as we all must. As we all deserve to do and nothing more.”
― Sara Tantlinger, To Be Devoured

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“It’s been too long, and I need her badly, need her to make me human again.”
― Sara Tantlinger, To Be Devoured

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Sara’s Quotes

“The world was hers for the reading.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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“Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!”
― Bram Stoker

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“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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“The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

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“I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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