We’re excited to share two spooky new covers from Tor.com Publishing’s Spring 2018 line up! First, Margaret Killjoy brings us another Danielle Cain story, following the events of The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion. Book two in the series, The Barrow Will Send What it May pits traveling anarchist Danielle Cain against eternal spirits, hypocritical ideologues, and brutal, unfeeling officers of the law. And from author Jeremy Shipp comes The Atrocities, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost’s education.
Check out both covers below, and read an excerpt from The Atrocities here.
Margaret Killjoy’s The Barrow Will Send What it May publishes April 3, 2018. From the catalog copy:
Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle Cain against eternal spirits, hypocritical ideologues, and brutal, unfeeling officers of the law.
Now a nascent demon-hunting crew on the lam, Danielle and her friends arrive in a small town that contains a secret occult library run by anarchists and residents who claim to have come back from the dead. When Danielle and her crew investigate, they are put directly in the crosshairs of a necromancer’s wrath — whose actions threaten to trigger the apocalypse itself.
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Jeremy Shipp’s The Atrocities publishes April 17, 2018. From the catalog copy:
When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn’t suffer.
But Isabella’s parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella’s… condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself through a surreal nightmare maze of twisted human-like statues, she discovers that there is no girl to tutor.
Or is there…?
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I was buying this today as a bday present but it’s been delayed. Aaaaugh
There are no surviving Heian era houses, a millenia of earthquakes and fires saw to that. But suspension of disbelief!
Heians didn’t cover the floor with tatami mats. Just a mat here and there to sit or lie on. They didn’t use paper soji either but screens made of embroidered fabric. A Shinden house consists of a series of large and small halls and pavilions linked by walkways. Given the flimsy open structure I’m not seeing where the girls can be buried. Suspension of disbelief keeps taking hits.
A haunted Japanese manor is a great idea but she made it unrealistically old. I’m also not crazy about the writing style and I’m not a big fan of angsty narrators. If Cat is tired of being unhappy, not hanging out with the people who made her so is a good first step. Also not a huge fan of severely dysfunctional relationships that are allowed to drag on and on like the people involved can’t even tell there’s something wrong.