Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales

A spine-tingling horror short story collection from Bram Stoker Award–winning author Mercedes M. Yardley, featuring seventeen bleakly beautiful tales of love, grief, madness, and the gorgeous tragedies that consume us from within.

A woman builds her lover from carefully scavenged pieces and parts. A young girl is groomed for madness by one who loves her most. A neurodivergent boy organizes his life, and loss, by the ticking of a clock. And love can be the most splendid and destructive force in the entire world.

Love is a Crematorium and Other Tales is a collection of seventeen stories that are both bleak and beautiful, devastating and sweet.

Enter the crematorium to experience grief, starlit nights, and gorgeous tragedy that make our souls burn from the inside out.