Caitlin R. Kiernan is the author of nine novels, including Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds, and The Red Tree. Her award-winning short fiction has been collected in six volumes, including Tales of Pain and Wonder; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster; and, most recently, A is for Alien. She has also published two volumes of erotica, Frog Toes and Tentacles and Tales from the Woeful Platypus. Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
“[Caitlín Kiernan has] a gift for language that borders on the
scary. Deeply, wonderfully, magnificently nasty.”—Neil Gaiman
“Kiernan’s chiller provides a strange and vastly compelling take on
a New England haunting, and captures its spirit unnervingly
well.”—Booklist
“[Kiernan’s] most personal, ambitious, and accomplished work
yet.”—Locus
“A suspenseful tale that feeds the imagination and blurs the line
of reality.” —Darque Reviews
“With its intelligent blend of folklore, horror, and dark fantasy,
Kiernan’s latest appeals well beyond urban fantasy fans.”—Library
Journal
“Dark-fantasy specialist Kiernan delivers a creepy and engaging
tale…Horror fans will recognize the familiar Lovecraftian
gothic-horror elements—indeed, Lovecraft, Poe, and other writers
are explicitly referenced in the text—but Kiernan’s prose is
thoroughly modern…She ably keeps the proceedings from developing
into formula, and her portrayals of Sarah’s growing obsession, and
the violence surrounding the tree, are evocative and chilling. A
multileveled novel that will appeal to fans of classic and modern
horror.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Kiernan’s dark tale blurs the lines between illusion and reality
in this multilayered novel. The characters are complex and deeply
flawed, and the beautiful and uninhibited prose easily evokes the
dread they experience.”—Romantic Times
“Kiernan does a great job of evoking the terror of not knowing what
is real and what is imagined…a layered, atmospheric tale.”—Fantasy
Literature
“[Kiernan] still remains the only author who manages to truly evoke
[Lovecraft] sensations of dread while at the same time managing to
do so in a voice entirely her own.”—King of the Nerds
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