Red Rabbit Ghost
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- 7,99 €
Publisher Description
In this genre-bending debut from brilliant new voice Jen Julian, Southern Gothic meets slow-burn dread, and an impulsive outcast must confront his small town’s dark secrets.
"Drenched in dread and yearning, Red Rabbit Ghost is the kind of Gothic novel that you don't so much read as inhale. I loved it." ― Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love
"Deeply immersive and darkly mysterious. Certain to be one of the year's standout horror reads." ― Craig DiLouie, author of Episode Thirteen
Eighteen years ago, an infant Jesse Calloway was found wailing on the bank of a river, his mother dead beside him. The mystery of her death has haunted him all his life, and despite every effort, he has never been able to uncover the truth.
Now someone is promising him answers. An anonymous source claims that they'll tell him everything. But only if he returns to the hometown he swore he'd left in the rearview.
But in Blacknot, North Carolina, nothing is as it seems. It's a town that buries its secrets deep. Jesse's relentless investigation garners attention from intimidating locals, including his dangerous ex-boyfriend. And he'll soon discover that this backwater town hides a volatile and haunting place on its desolate edge.
The Night House is calling. Some secrets are better left buried...
"At once elegiac and deeply visceral. A bittersweet ode to all the ways in which a place can haunt us long after we've departed―and transform us when we return." ― Georgia Summers, #1 international bestselling author
"Julian weaves a dark spell with the bones of southern gothic storytelling and gorgeous prose. To enter this haunted swamp of a novel is to lose yourself in cosmic mystery." ― Andy Marino, author of The Swarm
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A young man lured back to his North Carolina hometown to learn the true circumstances of a family tragedy becomes ensnared in a larger web of weird events in Julian's auspicious debut. Eighteen years before the start of the book, Jesse Calloway, age two, was found on the banks of the Miskwa River in Blacknot beside the decomposing corpse of his mother, Connie. Now Jesse receives a series of cryptic messages on social media from someone who goes by "Cat" and claims to have documents pertaining to the mother he never knew. He returns home from college hoping to learn more and crosses paths with Alice Catherine, a psychologically troubled young woman whose history of family loss similar to his own leaves little doubt as to "Cat's" true identity. Central to both Jesse's and Alice's interests is the Night House, an abandoned local mansion of dark repute where time seems to stand still and ghostly events crucial to understanding the past endlessly repeat themselves. Though Julian doesn't tie up all of the tale's loose ends, her story is borne along by well-shaded characters, whose complex inner lives abound with mysteries that can't all be easily solved. The result is a chilling dark fantasy that readers will savor.
