J A W McCarthy

Genres: Horror

Novels

Sleep Alone (2023)

Collections

Sometime's We're Cruel and Other Stories (2021)

Series contributed to

Split Scream
3. Split Scream Volume Three (2023) (with Patrick Barb)

Books containing stories by J A W McCarthy

The Joining (2025)
Scenes of Wedding Terror
edited by
Jacob Steven Mohr

101 Horror Stories (2025)

The Dark Issue 123 (2025)
(Dark Issue, book 123)

More books

Award nominations

	2023 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Sleep Alone
	2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction (nominee) : Sleep Alone
	2022 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction (nominee) : The Only Thing Different Will Be the Body
	2021 Shirley Jackson Award for Single-Author Collection (nominee) : Sometime's We're Cruel and Other Stories

J A W McCarthy recommends

Midnight on Beacon Street (2024)
Emily Ruth Verona
"Midnight on Beacon Street is an instant horror classic rich with honesty and heart. Verona fully immerses you in the moment, making sure you see, hear, and feel everything her characters do. Her skill is evident in how deeply real these characters feel from the first page."

Our Own Unique Affliction (2023)
Scott J Moses
"Moses gives us not only complicated and relatable characters, but also cinematic scene-setting coated with pathos and grit. Our Own Unique Affliction forces readers to face that often circumstance is the only thing separating us from the monsters."

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