Meet The Girl from Rawblood in March
When it comes to horror authors, few are more chilling than Susan Hill (The Woman in Black, The Man in the Picture), so when we heard Catriona Ward’s The Girl from Rawblood being compared to Hill’s works, well, of course we had to investigate!
Ward’s debut novel is being released March 7, 2017, by Trade Paperback Original and is said to be a fiercely original work of horror fiction that’s well-paced and genuinely disturbing. Evoking a complete and richly imagined world, it combines the genre-bending creativity of David Mitchell (Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks) with the Gothic voice of the aforementioned Ms. Hill.
The Girl from Rawblood is already an award winner; it was named Best Horror Novel (the August Derleth Award) at the British Fantasy Awards 2016.
Sound up your alley? You can pre-order The Girl from Rawblood now!
Synopsis:
For generations the Villarcas have died mysteriously… and young. Now Iris and her father will finally understand why.
At the turn of England’s century, as the wind whistles in the lonely halls of Rawblood, young Iris Villarca is the last of her family’s line. They are haunted, through the generations, by “her,” a curse passed down through ancient blood that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death.
Iris forsakes her promise to her father to remain alone, safe from the world. She dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood, where it all began and where it must all end…
From the sun-dappled hills of Italy to the biting chill of Victorian dissection halls, The Girl from Rawblood is a lyrical and haunting historical novel of darkness, love, and the ghosts of the past.
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