Winner, Best Horror Novel, 2016 Aurealis AwardsWinner, Best Novel, 2016 Shadow AwardsWinner, Best Novel, 2016 Ditmar Awards There are many grief holes. There's the grief hole you fall into when a loved one dies. There's another grief hole in all of us; small or large, it determines how much we want to live. And there are the geographical grief holes, the buildings that attract sorrow and loss and are filled with ghosts. Theresa sees these ghosts better than most, but can she figure out how to close the holes?

Shirley Jackson Award winner Kaaron Warren has lived in Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Fiji, She s sold many short stories, three novels (the multi-award-winning Slights, Walking the Tree and Mistification) and four short story collections. Two of her collections have won the ACT Publishers and Writers Award for fiction, and her most recent collection, Through Splintered Walls, won a Canberra Critic s Circle Award for Fiction, two Ditmar Awards, two Australian Shadows Awards and a Shirley Jackson Award. Her stories have appeared in Australia, the US, the UK and elsewhere in Europe, and have been selected for both Ellen Datlow s and Paula Guran s Year s Best Anthologies. She was shortlisted for a Bram Stoker Award for All You Can Do is Breathe , and was Special Guest at the Australian National Science Fiction Convention in Canberra 2013. Kaaron recently taught an online horror fiction workshop at Litreactor and is judging the Marjorie Graber-Mcinnis Award for 2013.