My Body, Herself: A Short Horror Story

Carmen Maria Machado

Feb 2020 · Come Join Us By the Fire Book 6 · Nightfire · Narrated by Saskia Maarleveld

About this audiobook

A woman learns that death is not the loneliest thing in "My Body, Herself", a short horror story by Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body and Other Parties), from the audio anthology Come Join Us by the Fire.

Come Join Us by the Fire, edited by Theresa DeLucci, is an audio-only horror anthology of 35 short stories from Nightfire Books, a horror imprint of Tor Books. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of bestselling genre luminaries including China Miéville, Chuck Wendig, Richard Kadrey, and Victor LaValle; Shirley Jackson Award winners Paul Tremblay, Priya Sharma, and Sam J. Miller; Nebula Award winners Brooke Bolander, Alyssa Wong, Kij Johnson; and many, many more.

Ratings and reviews

That was a really interesting story!

Super eerie and interesting!

Great Little Story,

About the author

Carmen Maria Machado’s work has appeared in Granta, The New Yorker, NPR, Electric Literature, and elsewhere. She has been nominated for a Nebula Award and a Shirley Jackson Award, and was a finalist for the Calvino Prize. She is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Prize.