J. Ashley Smith J. Ashley Smith i(8909536 works by)
Born: Established: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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1 The Measure of Sorrow J. Ashley Smith , 2023 single work novella
— Appears in: The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 The Boon J. Ashley Smith , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 The Face God Gave J. Ashley Smith , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 The Whatnot Shop J. Ashley Smith , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 The Family Madness J. Ashley Smith , 2023 single work short story
— Appears in: The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 2 y separately published work icon The Measure of Sorrow : Stories J. Ashley Smith , Atlanta : Meerkat Press , 2023 25917048 2023 selected work short story

'Shirley Jackson Award-winning author J. Ashley-Smith’s first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his estranged children in a post-bushfire wilderness; an artist records her last days in conversation with her unborn child; a brother and sister are abandoned to the manifestations of their uncle’s insanity; a suburban neighbourhood succumbs to an indescribable malaise; teenage ravers fall in with an eldritch crowd; a sensitive New Age guy commits a terminal act of passive-aggression; a plane crash opens the door to the Garden of Eden; the new boy in the village falls victim to a fatal ruse; and a husband's unexpressed grief is embodied in the shadows of a crumbling country barn. Intelligent and emotionally complex, the stories in The Measure of Sorrow elude easy classification, lifting the veil on the wonder and horror of a world just out of true.'

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1 Men Without Faces J. Ashley Smith , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Damnation Games 2022;
1 The Tub J. Ashley Smith , 2022 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Midnight Echo , no. 17 2022;
1 1 y separately published work icon Ariadne, I Love You J. Ashley Smith , Atlanta : Meerkat Press , 2021 23625422 2021 single work novella horror

'Jude is dragged out of Alt-Country obscurity, out of the dismal loop of booze and sadness baths and the boundless, insatiable loneliness, to scrub up and fly to Australia for a last, desperate comeback tour. Hardly worth getting out of bed for—and he wouldn’t, if it weren’t for Coreen.

'But Coreen is dead. And, worse than that, she’s married. Jude’s swan-song tour becomes instead a terminal descent, into the sordid past, into the meaning hidden in forgotten songs, into Coreen’s madness diary, there to waken something far worse than her ghost.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 The Black Massive J. Ashley Smith , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Dimension6 , vol. 21 no. 2020; The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 y separately published work icon The Attic Tragedy J. Ashley Smith , Atlanta : Meerkat Press , 2020 19567270 2020 single work novella fantasy

'Sylvie never called them ghosts, but that’s what they were—not that George ever saw them herself. The new girl, Sylvie, is like a creature from another time, with her old-fashioned leather satchel, her white cotton gloves and her head in the clouds. George watches her drift around the edge of the school playing fields, guided by inaudible voices.

'When George stands up for Sylvie, beating back Tommy Payne and his gang of thugs, it brings her close to the ethereal stranger; though not as close as George would have liked. In the attic of Sylvie’s father’s antique shop, George’s scars will sing and her longing will drive them both toward a tragedy as veiled and inevitable as Sylvie’s whispering ghosts.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 In Memoriam J. Ashley Smith , 2020 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 131 2020;
1 The Moth Tapes J. Ashley Smith , 2019 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 117 2019; (p. 18-28) The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 The Further Shore J. Ashley Smith , 2018 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Bourbon Penn , March no. 15 2018; The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 On the Line J. Ashley Smith , 2017 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Midnight Echo , December no. 12 2017;
1 Old Growth J. Ashley Smith , 2017 single work short story fantasy horror
— Appears in: SQ Mag , June no. 31 2017; The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
1 Duplicity J. Ashley Smith , 2017 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Dimension6 , no. 11 2017; Dimension6 : Annual Collection 2017 2017;
1 Our Last Meal J. Ashley Smith , 2015 single work short story horror
— Appears in: In Sunshine Bright and Darkness Deep 2015; (p. 79-96) The Measure of Sorrow : Stories 2023;
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