The Mournful Cry of Owls: Short Story

Christopher Golden

HarperCollins Canada, May 27, 2014 - Fiction - 25 pages

In 1970s America, a teenage girl celebrates her birthday, falls in love with a boy, and fights the strange hunger inside her as her mother reveals a dreadful secret. From award-winning, bestselling writer and editor Christopher Golden's Tell My Sorrows to the Stones, this short story is one of a set of twelve haunting tales of human longing, magic when least expected, and terrible prices to be paid, willingly or not.

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About the author

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as Of Saints and Shadows, The Myth Hunters, The Boys Are Back in Town, and Strangewood. He has also written books for teens and young adults, including the Body of Evidence series, Poison Ink, Soulless, and The Secret Journeys of Jack London, co-authored with Tim Lebbon. His current work-in-progress is a graphic novel trilogy collaboration with Charlaine Harris entitled Cemetery Girl. Golden frequently collaborates with other writers on books, comics, and scripts. He has co-written three illustrated novels with Mike Mignola, the first of which, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, was the launching pad for the Eisner Award-nominated comic book series, Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies The New Dead, The Monster’s Corner, and 21st Century Dead, among others, and has also written and co- written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. Golden was born and raised in New England, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world. Please visit him at www.christophergolden.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mournful Cry of Owls: Short Story
• Author: Christopher Golden
• Publisher: HarperCollins Canada, 2014
• ISBN: 1771482559, 9781771482554
• Length: 25 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)