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One evening at summer's end, in a town where nomads and caravans prepare to cross the mountains, the day laborer Sado meets a young woman with a painfully familiar tattoo at the corner of her eye. The two are drawn to each other by a shared history of rebellion and exile, and the mysterious woman begins to share her tale. It is a story of expulsion, forced resettlement, and the sainted creature that came to rule the woman's fate: dervish, djinn, or maybe something more monstrous. As the woman's tale unfurls, Sado is further entangled in its warp and weft, even as it grows clear that his companion's nature has been touched by the same hungry force of which she speaks. With the past bleeding into the present, the two must face a power as vast and overwhelming as the night - one that threatens not only their lives, but the very shapes of their selves.

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The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away is an exquisitely crafted novella about two people, both scarred and changed by the pain violence inflicted on them, who meet and change each other's lives. It's a spellbinding vampire story that will break, and mend, your heart. - Maria Haskins, author of Six Dreams About the Train and Wolves & Girls Delights all the senses - I could feel the breeze on my face, smell the flowering plants and the coppery tang of a blade dripping blood. - Bogi Takács, Hugo and Lambda award winning author, editor and critic

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Tanvir Ahmed is a storyteller and historian. His short fiction has appeared in various magazines and collections, including The Year's Best Fantasy and The Horror Library. He earned his doctorate from Brown University writing on medieval Islamic history, was once a competitive fencer, and is an avid boxer. He lives in the American Southwest.

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