Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical

British Fantasy Award 2010 for Best Collection.

The first love song in the world, as composed by a pig in the Garden of Eden...

The Devil, alarmed when his hobby of writing romantic fiction begins to upstage his day job...

A man finding love with someone who has an allergy to his happiness, another losing love altogether when his wife gives him back his heart in a Tupperware box...

By turns macabre and moving, horrific and laugh-out-loud funny, Robert Shearman's short stories come from a place just to the left of the corner of your eye.

Following his World Fantasy Award-winning 'Tiny Deaths', this new collection puts a bizarre twist on the love story. What is love, why does it hurt so much, and how is it we keep coming back for more?

Sometimes poignant, sometimes cruel – but always as startling and fresh as Shearman's fans have come to expect.

Contents:

• Love Among the Lobelias
• Roadkill
• Sweet Nothings
• Pang
• This Creeping Thing
• 14.2
• Your Long, Loving Arms
• At the Crease
• Luxembourg
• Sharp
• Be of Good Cheer
• Jolly Roger
• Crumble
• George Clooney's Moustache
• Love in a Time of Sharing
• Not About Love
• One Last Love Song