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The Sea Gives Up the Dead
- Author
- Molly Olguín
- Narrator
- Heather Kay Ling
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Publish Date
- 29 April 2025
- Run Time
- 6 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Short stories, Fantasy romance, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
"A wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House ● "Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant" —Andrea Barrett, author of Natural History and Ship Fever ● "Mix the wildness of fairy tales with horror." —Kim Brock, Joseph-Beth Booksellers ● "Fantastical, queer, wildly inventive stories." —Austin Carter, Pocket Books Shop ● "A mouthwatering ride." —Desirae Wilkerson, Paper Boat Booksellers ● "Absolutely fantastic!" —Randy Schiller, Left Bank Books, St. Louis, Missouri
A lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son's grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.
User Reviews
Book 4.0
Narration 3.0
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4.0 3.0
It's hard to rate a short story collection: a handful of these really resonated and made me overall glad to have picked this up. Lots of the stories were a lot more grounded and heavy than I'd expected from the synopsis - I was surprised that the parts that stuck with me most were the ways the author wrote about grief.
I didn't mesh with the narration at all, but I do think it was mostly just a personal preference thing?eleanorf 2026-06-01
Details
- Author
- Molly Olguín
- Narrator
- Heather Kay Ling
- Duration
- 6 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 29 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781696618793
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Highbridge Company
- Genre
- Short stories, Fantasy romance, Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, Adventure fiction, Fiction: general and literary
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 3.0(1 review)
Synopsis
INDIES INTRODUCE SELECTION ● DEBUT AUTHOR, MOLLY OLGUÍN brings us THE SEA GIVES UP THE DEAD, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild there."A wunderkammer of beauty and sorrow." —Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House ● "Witty, witchy, darkly brilliant" —Andrea Barrett, author of Natural History and Ship Fever ● "Mix the wildness of fairy tales with horror." —Kim Brock, Joseph-Beth Booksellers ● "Fantastical, queer, wildly inventive stories." —Austin Carter, Pocket Books Shop ● "A mouthwatering ride." —Desirae Wilkerson, Paper Boat Booksellers ● "Absolutely fantastic!" —Randy Schiller, Left Bank Books, St. Louis, MissouriA lovesick nanny slays a dragon. The devil tries to save her mother. A girl drowns and becomes a saint. Three kids plot to blow up their dad, a grieving mother sails the sea to find her son's grave, a scientist brings a voice to life, and a mermaid falls into the power of a witch. Here, historical fiction, horror, and fantasy tangle together in a queer garden of love, grief, and longing.
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