The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

Author: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Publisher: Tachyon Publications

Published: 2019-02-24

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1616963034

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"Pure genius."—New York Times “Lyrically compelling tales that are nearly impossible to stop reading...fans of weird writers like Carmen Maria Machado, Jeff VanderMeer, and China Mieville will be glad to find this volume and thereby discover a writer who inspired them all.” —Booklist Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of dark fantasy and horror’s most acclaimed and influential short fiction writers. Her powerful, unexpected stories shatter morality, gender, and sexuality: a reporter is goaded by her toxic girlfriend into visiting sadistic art exhibits; a countess in a decaying movie theater is sated by her servants; a collector offers his greatest achievement to ensnare a musician who grieves for her missing sister. In this retrospective collection of her finest work—previously only available in limited editions—Kiernan cuts straight to the heart of the emotional truths we cannot ignore.


The Red Tree

The Red Tree

Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2009-08-04

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 110110533X

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Sarah Crowe left Atlanta—and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship—to live in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house’s former tenant—an anthropologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the property. Tied to local legends of supernatural magic, as well as documented accidents and murders, the gnarled tree takes root in Sarah’s imagination, prompting her to write her own account of its unsavory history. And as the oak continues to possess her dreams and nearly almost all her waking thoughts, Sarah risks her health and her sanity to unearth a revelation planted centuries ago…


Murder of Angels

Murder of Angels

Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-04-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1101212799

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Niki Ky spends her days in a medicated haze, haunted by the ghosts of those she left behind ten years ago after a confrontation against an unspeakable evil that left her shattered. To find peace, Niki must return to the house on the side of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama-to face creatures no human should ever have to face...


Daughter of Hounds

Daughter of Hounds

Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0451461576

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They’re known as the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and raised by ghouls, the changelings serve the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who disobey. Eight years ago, Emmie Silvey was born on Halloween while a full moon rose in the sky. Raised in Providence by her widower father, she’s a strange, yellow-eyed girl, plagued with visions of impossible worlds and fabulous beings. Now her path is about to intersect with one of the changelings, a violent young woman named Soldier who’s quickly slipping from the favor of her ghoul masters. Inextricably linked, together they must face the monsters and unearthly forces that have shaped their lives… and threaten their futures.


Agents of Dreamland

Agents of Dreamland

Author: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2017-02-28

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0765394316

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“[In this] Lovecraft-inflected police procedural . . . Kiernan’s writing—starkly visual, tongue in cheek and disturbingly visceral—carries the day.” —New York Times A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible—the Children of the Next Level—and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in. A day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from ‘other’ sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA’s interplanetary probe New Horizons. Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact. And a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity. Agents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan. “Kiernan’s subtly haunting voice draws the reader in.” —Publishers Weekly “Caitlín R Kiernan is one of those writers that you can’t believe isn’t a household name. Her writing is fantastic and her stories are dark, complex and wonderful.” —Book Riot


Low Red Moon

Low Red Moon

Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-08-07

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1101212756

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Several years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. They’re looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her...


Tales of Pain and Wonder

Tales of Pain and Wonder

Author: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596061446

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Included in this collection are 21 short stories by the award willing author of Silk. Caitlin R. Kiernan has added a new voice to the world of horror and supernatural writing. Her stories consistently make it into The Years Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Her writing is unique, thought provoking, and leads you to places that you fear, yet find fascinating.


Silk

Silk

Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1998-06-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780451456687

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To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within Spder's brain. Something powerful. Something wonderful. Something dangerous. Pray it never escapes.


Two Worlds and in Between: Zelda Fitzgerald in ballet attire

Two Worlds and in Between: Zelda Fitzgerald in ballet attire

Author: Caitlín R. Kiernan

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781596063914

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This retrospective volume, the first of two, contains works published between 1993 and 2004 that show Kiernan's rapid ascent from a journeyman writer bringing a fresh perspective to classic horror themes ("Emptiness Spoke Eloquent," a Dracula "sequel," and the title tale, an exercise in punk nihilism with zombies) to one of the most innovative and imaginative stylists in contemporary dark fantasy. Particularly noteworthy are two award-winning stories: "La Peau Verte," an otherworldly absinthe fantasy, and the horror tour de force "Onion," about a couple haunted by encounters with the supernatural that represent both the most horrifying and the most transcendent moments of their depressingly common lives.


Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Silk (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Author: Alessandro Baricco

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-12-10

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 0307490955

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The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour is a French merchant of silkworms, who combs the known world for their gemlike eggs. Then circumstances compel him to travel farther, beyond the edge of the known, to a country legendary for the quality of its silk and its hostility to foreigners: Japan.There Joncour meets a woman. They do not touch; they do not even speak. And he cannot read the note she sends him until he has returned to his own country. But in the moment he does, Joncour is possessed.