Khaw’s mermaid is, like so many of her kind in fiction, a creature who came from the sea, went up onto land, and married a prince. In their latest book, The Salt Grows Heavy, Khaw once again brings this brilliant gift to the fore, along with a palpable talent for creepy mythmaking, as the legend of the mermaid takes on bloody new life in this dark, gore-steeped journey.
Through work like their haunting novella Nothing But Blackened Teeth and their recent short fiction collection Breakable Things, Khaw has proven adept at luring readers in with sumptuous, deeply evocative prose that’s there to be savored, then going in for the kill with vicious, often surprisingly emotional terror. Cassandra Khaw is one of the great craftspeople working in horror literature right now.
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