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About Catriona Ward
CATRIONA WARD was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford and is a graduate of the Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia.
'The Last House on Needless Street' (Viper Books, Tor Nightfire) was a Times Book of the Month, Observer Book of the Month, March Editor’s Pick on Open Book, a Between the Covers BBC2 book club selection, a Times bestseller, and is being developed for film by Andy Serkis’s production company, The Imaginarium.
'Little Eve' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2018) won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award and the August Derleth Prize for Best Horror Novel at the 2019 British Fantasy Awards, making her the only woman to have won the prize twice, and was a Guardian best book of 2018. Her debut Rawblood (W&N, 2015) won Best Horror Novel at the 2016 British Fantasy Awards, was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and a WHSmith Fresh Talent title. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies. She lives in London and Devon.
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"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen King
An Indie Next Pick! A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
A Library Journal Editors' Pick! STARRED reviews from Library Journal and Publishers Weekly!
Named one of the "50 Best Horror Books of All Time" by Esquire!
"Brilliant....[a] deeply frightening deconstruction of the illusion of the self." —The New York Times
Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.
In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.
A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.
A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.
And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.
An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.
“The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough
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“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King
A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick!
STARRED review from Publishers Weekly!
Recommended by Bustle, USA Today, CNN, i09, The Nerd Daily, LitReactor, GoodReads, LitHub, and more!
Sundial is a new, twisty psychological horror novel from Catriona Ward, internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street.
You can't escape what's in your blood...
All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind.
She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.
Callie is worried about her mother. Rob has begun to look at her strangely, and speaks of past secrets. And Callie fears that only one of them will leave Sundial alive…
The mother and daughter embark on a dark, desert journey to the past in the hopes of redeeming their future.
"Ward coaxes Rob’s gruesome past open like a toxic flower. ...And yet at its core, Sundial is about resilience. …And that, in itself, is an unthinkable feat." —The New York Times Book Review
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"An impressively hectic spin on the Gothic tradition"—Telegraph
The winner of BEST HORROR NOVEL at the British Fantasy Awards by the author of The House on Needless Street!
What if it's not your mansion that's haunted—it's you?
Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances.
But Iris 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...
Perfect for fans of Shirley Jackson, Susan Hill, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Girl from Rawblood will pull readers through time into the early 1800s and 1900s, mesmerizing them with this lyrical story of cunning folk horror right until the breathtaking finish.
Praise for The Girl from Rawblood:
"Superb debut....Ward perfectly balances sensory richness with the chills of the uncanny."
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
"The Girl from Rawblood makes a powerful contribution to the British literature of the fantastic...There's a touch of Ted Hughes here, Emily Bronte and M.R James in this eerie and by turns moving story that spans generations...A definite book of the year for me."
—Adam Nevill, award-winning author of The Ritual and No One Gets Out Alive
"The Girl from Rawblood weaves a spell that both terrifies and mesmerizes. As each layer of mystery is peeled away, more haunting truth is revealed. The book leaves the reader breathless in its gothic tale of fear, family, blood, and love."
—Simone St. James, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel
From Catriona Ward, the international bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street comes Little Eve, a heart-pounding tale of faith and family, with a devastating twist.
Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel.
“A great day is upon us. He is coming. The world will be washed away.”
On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth.
The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want the honor, but young Eve is willing to do anything for the distinction.
A reckoning beyond Eve’s imagination begins when Chief Inspector Black arrives to investigate a brutal murder and their sacred ceremony goes terribly wrong.
And soon all the secrets of Altnaharra will be uncovered.
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- STEPHEN KING -
NEL BOSCO IN FONDO A NEEDLESS STREET NON ABITANO SOLO ANIMALI MA ANCHE SENSO DI COLPA, CRUDELTÀ E DOLORE.
SMARRIRCISI È F IN TROPPO FACILE, PERCHÉ TUTTI SIAMO VITTIME MA ANCHE CARNEFICI.
Questa è la storia di un assassino, di una bambina scomparsa e di una vendetta. Questa è la storia di Ted, che vive con sua figlia Lauren e la gatta Olivia in una casa normale alla fine di una strada normale. Tutte queste cose sono vere. Eppure, alcune sono bugie.
Pensi di sapere cosa c'è dentro l'ultima casa in fondo a Needless Street. Pensi di aver già letto questa storia. Ma è qui che ti sbagli.
Another twisty psychological horror novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street and Sundial
“DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK. Authentically terrifying.” —Stephen King on Sundial
Failed writer Wilder Harlow has returned to the lonely cottage on the New England coast where years ago he wrote his first book, never published. Here, he intends to write his last — his masterpiece.
Wilder’s protagonist is based on his nemesis, Sky, now dead. After the publication of Sky’s first novel, Looking Glass Sound, Sky’s fame and ego drove them apart. Wilder's last book will be a thinly veiled account of their friendship, and later, their enmity. This is Wilder's revenge.
As he writes, the lines between fiction and reality slip. Events in the manuscript start to chime eerily with the present. Wilder discovers notes in Sky’s handwriting, written in his favorite green ink. Is Sky haunting Wilder? Or is something more sinister going on in the lonely cottage?
As Wilder goes deeper into the work, he fears he’s losing his grip on sanity. And a terrifying question raises its head – is he writing about Looking Glass Sound, or is he in it?
Catriona Ward's latest novel takes twists and turns on the journey of one troubled author's final attempt to set the record straight.
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Lulu, die kleine Schwester von Dee, ist vor Jahren auf mysteriöse Weise verschwunden. Man glaubt, dass sie ermordet wurde.
Als Hauptverdächtiger galt damals der Einzelgänger Ted – ein eigenartiger Mann, der an einer Entwicklungsstörung leidet. Die Anschuldigung eines solch abscheulichen Verbrechens haben sich zudem äußerst nachteilig auf sein Leben ausgewirkt.
Dee ist inzwischen erwachsen, aber immer noch fest entschlossen herauszufinden, was Lulu angetan wurde. Deshalb mietet sie ein Haus in der Needless Street und beobachtet das merkwürdige Treiben des Mannes aus der Sicherheit ihres neuen Zuhauses.
Als eine Nachbarin verschwindet und sich weitere seltsame Dinge ereignen, fällt der Verdacht erneut auf Ted … Kann Dee das Monster endlich demaskieren?
Ein höllisch gut geschriebenes Psycho-Puzzle.
Du glaubst du weißt, was im letzten Haus in der Needless Street passiert? Tja, du liegst auf jeden Fall falsch.
Stephen King: »Das ganze Lob über THE LAST HOUSE ON NEEDLESS STREET ist nicht übertrieben. Der Roman hat mich umgehauen. Ein wahrer Nervenzerfetzer, der seine grandiosen Geheimnisse bis zum Ende bewahrt. Seit GONE GIRL habe ich so was Aufregendes nicht mehr gelesen.«
Alex North: »Ein Meisterwerk. Faszinierend und herzzerreißend. Einer der stärksten und am besten geschriebenen Romane der letzten Jahre.«
Joanne Harris: »Bücher wie diese erscheinen nicht allzu oft. Ein raffinierter, gut geschriebener, stilsicherer Psychothriller ... mit einer perfekt strukturierten Handlung und einem perfekt befriedigenden WAAAS am Ende. Ich würde gern sagen, ich habe das Buch in einem Zug eingeatmet, aber ich glaube, ich war zu beschäftigt damit, den Atem anzuhalten.«
Joe Hill: »Ein kaltes, wunderschönes Meisterwerk. Ich bin absolut begeistert.«
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