May the Dead Keep You
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- Sortie prévue le 21 avr. 2026
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- 9,99 €
Description de l’éditeur
Perfect for fans of Don't Let the Forest In and Wuthering Heights, this gothic horror novel is about the pasts that haunt us and the stories we decide to make for ourselves.
There’s nowhere Catie East would rather be than the redwood forest that surrounds her family’s unusual historic home, the Heights.
She prefers being alone in the forest. People are ... complicated. But when a scientist and his son move into the estate’s cottage, planning to study the woods around them, the boy catches Catie’s eye. And when a dead woodpecker miraculously comes back to life in his precious hands ... he captures her heart.
Necromancy isn’t the only strange thing happening in the Heights.There’s an unfamiliar face in the mirror. Blood on the floors. Eyes in the wallpaper. And the men around her—including her once-sweet nature boy—are becoming something else. Something possessive and frightening. Something violent.
As the Heights’s dark history starts to come to light, Catie discovers that the home she loves is imbued with pain. And even though the pain isn’t her own, it will corrupt her and the people around her all the same—unless she can stop it.
A story about breaking cycles of abuse and overcoming generational trauma, May the Dead Keep You is an edge-of-your-seat read—equally horrifying, heart-wrenching, and hopeful.
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A house's dark past seems determined to repeat itself in this nightmarish gothic horror novel from Baguchinsky (So Witches We Became). Seventeen-year-old Catie East lives in the Heights, a half midcentury mansion, half medieval-castle keep that sits on 200 acres of private redwood forest in Ellis Pass, Calif. Built in the 1950s by reclusive architect Patrick Earnshaw for his wife and daughter, the house now belongs to Catie, her laid-back older brother Leigh, and their pharmaceutical company CEO mother. Loner Catie regards the family's forest as her sanctuary, so she initially bristles when her mom invites redwood scientist Dr. Solis to stay in the guest cottage for a six-month research endeavor. Then Catie meets and falls for Dr. Solis's teen son, Hunter. As Catie and Hunter's romance blooms, the Heights is plagued by strange happenings, whose explanations lie in the house's dark history. Baguchinsky peppers Catie's first-person narration with Earnshaw ephemera—including articles and diary entries as well as illustrations of old photographs, rendered in grayscale by Heidersdorf (Odd Occurrences)—which reveal the family's tragic tale and connect it to the Heights' present-day haunting. While a necromancy subplot feels somewhat shoehorned in, it paves the way for uniquely terrifying imagery, and the tale's intersectionally diverse characters are richly wrought. Ages 14–up. Author's agent: Eric Smith, PS Literary.
