This Strange Way of Dying

This Strange Way of Dying is a collection of fantasy science fiction and horror short stories by Mexican-Canadian author Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It was her first book and first collection. It was first published in trade paperback by Exile Editions in September 2013, with an ebook edition following from the same publisher in August 2018.[1]

This Strange Way of Dying
Cover of first edition
AuthorSilvia Moreno-Garcia
Cover artistSara Diesel
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
GenreFantasy, science fiction, horror
PublisherExile Editions
Publication date
2013
Media typeprint (paperback), ebook
Pages206
ISBN978-1-55096-354-0
OCLC843520578
813.6
LC ClassPR9199.4 .M656174 S77 2013

Summary

The book collects fifteen short works of fiction by the author.[1] Its stories are "infused with Mexican folklore" and feature "creatures that shed their skin and roam the night, vampires in Mexico City that struggle with disenchantment, an apocalypse with giant penguins, legends of magic scorpions, and tales of a ceiba tree surrounded by human skulls."[2]

Contents
  • "Scales as Pale as Moonlight" (from Exile Quarterly, May 2011)
  • "Maquech" (from Futurismic, July 2008)
  • "Stories with Happy Endings"
  • "Bed of Scorpions" (from Tesseracts Thirteen, July 2009)
  • "Jaguar Woman" (from Shimmer no. 10, April 2009)
  • "Nahuales" (From Toasted Cake no. 60, February 2013)
  • "The Doppelgangers" (2012)
  • "Driving with Aliens in Tijuana" (from Expanded Horizons iss. 4, November 2010)
  • "Flash Frame" (from Cthulhurotica, January 2011)
  • "The Cemetery Man"
  • "The Death Collector" (from AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review, February 2011)
  • "This Strange Way of Dying" (from Giganotosaurus, August 1, 2011)
  • "Bloodlines" (from Fantasy Magazine, September 2010)
  • "Shade of the Ceibra Tree" (from Kaleidotrope, April 2011)
  • "Snow"

Awards

The book was nominated for the 2014 Sunburst Award, in the adult category.[1]

Reception

The collection was reviewed by Leah Larson in Dark Discoveries no. 27, Spring 2014, and Foz Meadows in Strange Horizons, 15 December 2014.[1]

References
  1. This Strange Way of Dying title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
  2. Moreno-Garcia, Silvia. This Strange Way of Dying, Exile Editions, 2013. Publisher's blurb.
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