“With his latest, MacLeod plumbs the depths of depravity with tales driven by raw brutality and nightmarish horror.”
An elderly woman’s last encounter with a lost loved one is held in an antique collection’s grim acquisition.
After a child confesses to a horrifying secret, a priest begins to lose faith in humanity.
A biker enforcer fights to survive the forces unleashed by the last act of a desperate man.
These, and thirteen other stories—three never published before—covering the increasing surveillance state of the world to grisly atrocity tourism, bring to haunting life the fears of “random” violence, isolation, unwelcome connection, beginnings, endings, and all the terrors in between.
Why we’re excited about this book:
Discovering the beauty and cruelty of the human heart is Bracken MacLeod’s speciality. The author of Closing Costs, Stranded, Mountain Home, White Knight, and Come to Dust, MacLeod’s short fiction is collected in 13 Views of the Suicide Woods and is featured in such publications as Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors, Dread: A Head Full of Bad Dreams, and Echoes among others. With his latest, MacLeod plumbs the depths of depravity with tales driven by raw brutality and nightmarish horror. Benjamin Percy (Red Moon, The End Times) says: “Are you ready? Take a deep breath. Sign the waiver. Enter the dark. The fearless and wildly talented Bracken Macleod is going to spike your adrenaline and hurt your heart. Let Not Your Sorrow Die is a haunting, beautiful collection that tours you the best and worst of the human condition and leaves a shadow in you like a bruise.”, and Clay McLeod Chapman (Wake Up and Open Your Eyes) says: “Let Not Your Sorrow Die, otherwise known as The Brutality of Bracken, is the omitted sixty-seventh book from the Bible, a wrathful assortment of tales better told with your fists than words, given that MacLeod bloodied his knuckles while writing them. These stories punch you straight in the face with every flip of the page.”
Releasing from Bad Hand Books 2 September 2025, Let Not Your Sorrow Die by Bracken MacLeod is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
