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There Is No Place for Sorrow in the Kingdom of the Cold

Seanan McGuire

First published March 2015
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

"Woman is a human-seeming doll, created by her father the doll-master. She regularly empties her emotions by ritual into dolls of her own making to keep herself from cracking up, literally. Her expulsion of emotion allows her to create a 'key' into the 'Kingdom of the Cold'" — Dan Smyth

per Laughter at the Academy (collection) Originally published in The Doll Collection, 2015, Ellen Datlow, ed.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
March 2015 Cover The Doll Collection Tor Anthology 121
March 2015 Cover The Doll Collection Tor Anthology
March 2016 Cover The Doll Collection Tor Anthology
June 2016 Cover The Dark, July 2016 Prime Books MAGAZINE
July 2016 Cover The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2016 Edition Prime Books Anthology 24
October 2019 Cover Laughter at the Academy Subterranean Press Collection 245
October 2019 Cover Laughter at the Academy Subterranean Press Collection |16