And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe

2018-06-22 Fiction

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Release : 2018-06-22
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 547/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe written by Gwendolyn Kiste . This book was released on 2018-06-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A murdered movie star reaches out to an unlikely fan. An orchard is bewitched with poison apples and would-be princesses. A pair of outcasts fail a questionnaire that measures who in their neighborhood will vanish next. Two sisters keep a grotesque secret hidden in a Victorian bathtub. A dearly departed best friend carries a grudge from beyond the grave. In her debut collection, Gwendolyn Kiste delves into the gathering darkness where beauty embraces the monstrous, and where even the most tranquil worlds are not to be trusted. From fairy tale kingdoms and desolate carnivals, to wedding ceremonies and summer camps that aren’t as joyful as they seem, these fourteen tales of horror and dark fantasy explore death, rebirth, and illusion all through the eyes of those on the outside—the forgotten, the forsaken, the Other, none of whom will stay in the dark any longer.

The Rust Maidens

2018-11-16 Fiction

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Release : 2018-11-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 454/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Rust Maidens written by Gwendolyn Kiste. This book was released on 2018-11-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street. It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile at the shore, one strong spark, and the Cuyahoga River might catch fire. But none of that compares to what’s happening in their own west side neighborhood. The girls Phoebe and Jacqueline have grown up with are changing. It starts with footprints of dark water on the sidewalk. Then, one by one, the girls’ bodies wither away, their fingernails turning to broken glass, and their bones exposed like corroded metal beneath their flesh. As rumors spread about the grotesque transformations, soon everyone from nosy tourists to clinic doctors and government men start arriving on Denton Street, eager to catch sight of “the Rust Maidens” in metamorphosis. But even with all the onlookers, nobody can explain what’s happening or why—except perhaps the Rust Maidens themselves. Whispering in secret, they know more than they’re telling, and Phoebe realizes her former friends are quietly preparing for something that will tear their neighborhood apart. Alternating between past and present, Phoebe struggles to unravel the mystery of the Rust Maidens—and her own unwitting role in the transformations—before she loses everything she’s held dear: her home, her best friend, and even perhaps her own body.

Reluctant Immortals

2022-08-23 Fiction

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Release : 2022-08-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 363/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Reluctant Immortals written by Gwendolyn Kiste. This book was released on 2022-08-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner 2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre—as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man’s world.

Pretty Marys All in a Row

2017-10-31 Ghost stories

Author : Gwendolyn Kiste
Release : 2017-10-31
Genre : Ghost stories
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Book Rating : 310/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Pretty Marys All in a Row written by Gwendolyn Kiste. This book was released on 2017-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary, Mary... Always hitchhiking the same lonely highway, she calls herself Rhee, but everyone else knows her as Resurrection Mary. With her sisters, they are the Marys, embodiments of urban legend and what goes bump in the night, every child's nightmare. Rhee must unravel who the Marys are before the darkness claims them.

There Is No Death, There Are No Dead

2021-08-25

Author : Kathe Koja
Release : 2021-08-25
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Book Rating : 840/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book There Is No Death, There Are No Dead written by Kathe Koja. This book was released on 2021-08-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spirits of the dead exist, and they want to communicate.First appearing in the late 1800s, spiritualism became a religious movement that swept the nation. Under the assumption that the dead live on in the afterlife, spiritualists believed that contact with the dearly departed was not only possible, but something those who crossed over longed for. Contact was usually made through a medium, a person who claimed to have the ability to speak with the dead.There Is No Death, There Are No Dead tackles all aspects of the spiritualist movement: from the true believers to the nay-sayers, the hoaxes to hauntings, the real mediums to the scam artists. Includes new work from some of the most talented and respected authors in the horror and dark fantasy genres, featuring stories from Gemma Files, Helen Marshall, Kathe Koja, Lee Murray, David Demchuk, Lisa Morton, Gwendolyn Kiste, S.P. Miskowski, Seanan McGuire, Catherine Lord, Chesya Burke, Nadia Bulkin, Michelle Belanger, and Laird Barron.The dead are speaking. Will you hear?

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