He’s holding a drink, a bourbon on the rocks or some other nostalgic man-in-the-gray-flannel-suit nonsense. A stern face like a military father, a face without pity. He’s older than the rest, maybe thirty-five, with thick eyebrows, a square jaw, hair the color of midnight. Where does he find them all? Or worse yet, do they simply find him? He’s standing at the rim of the pool, next to a row of plastic lawn chairs, each one filled with another vacant-eyed girl. There are girls everywhere, the same as inside the house, but I see him immediately, the man they’re all performing for. The pool glitters in the moonlight, the shape of a teardrop, blue and spotless as a phony lagoon from a movie set.
Outside, the air is sweet with summer, the pungent scent of chlorine leaking in at the edges.
You can also find her online at Facebook and Twitter the beautiful, psychedelic cover – scroll down to read a haunting excerpt.Īpple | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | IndieBound Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, two cats, and not nearly enough ghosts. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Tor Nightfire, Vastarien, Black Static, Daily Science Fiction, Unnerving, Interzone, and LampLight, as well as Flame Tree Publishing’s Gothic Fantasy series, among others. Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award–winning author of The Rust Maidens, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Invention of Ghosts, Boneset & Feathers, and Reluctant Immortals. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.Ĭombining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man’s world. Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester’s attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. We’re thrilled to reveal the cover and an exclusive excerpt from Gwendolyn Kiste’s Reluctant Immortals, coming August 23rd, 2022!įor fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr.
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