Caitlin R. Kiernan

• May-1998
• / Horror
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• Jun-1998
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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To the residents of her small southern city, second-hand store owner Spyder Baxter is crazy. But her friends and followers know better. Something lives within Spder's brain. Something powerful. Something wonderful. Something dangerous. Pray it never ...

• Nov-2001
• / Horror
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Chance Matthews has suffered enough tragedies. The latest--her grandfather's death--has left her shaken, convinced that she will always be alone. What she needs now is time--time to recover, time to determine what her future will be. What she does...

• May-2002
• / Horror
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An all-new collection of twenty-seven original tales by some of the finest authors of contemporary horror includes chilling works by Poppy Z. Brite, Peter Crowther, Edo van Belkom, Richard Laymon, Lucy Taylor, David Niall Wilson, Caitlin R. Kiernan, ...

• Apr-2003
• / Horror
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As in Poppy Z. Brite's The Seed of Lost Souls, and David Morrell's Testament: the Unpublished Prologues, this huge (nearly 30,000 words!) limited edition (only 500 copies!) chapbook contains rare glimpses into CaitlÌn R. Kiernan's new novel, Thresho...

• Jul-2003
• / Horror
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• Nov-2003
• / Suspense
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Chance Silvey grew up in her grandparents' house on the side of Red Mountain, high above the urban sprawl of Birmingham, Alabama. Now married and with a baby on the way, she wants to move on and leave the house--and the tragic history of her family--...

• Sep-2004
• / Fantasy
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Ten years ago, Niki Ky and Dania Parker saw something unspeakable in an old house in Birmingham, Alabama. Dania has denied it, escaping into a frantic music career and various addictions. But Niki hasn't been so fortunate. Diagnosed schizophrenic, sh...

• Sep-2004
• / Horror
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A gruesome collection of stories delves into the mysterious creatures and dark forces that lurk in the shadows, featuring contributions from such noted horror authors as Don Tumasonis, Lee Thomas, Mark Samuels, and Joseph A. Ezzo. Original....

• Nov-2004
• / Science Fiction
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• Sep-2005
• / Horror
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To Charles Fort, With Love is award-winning fantasist Caitlín R. Kiernan's third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psyc...

• Aug-2006
• / Fantasy
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An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel - or perhaps only voices in her head - searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of t...

• Jan-2007
• / Horror
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They are the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and concealed in shadows to be raised by ghouls, they are now changelings in service to the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly for...

• Jan-2007
• / Horror
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• Sep-2007
• / Fantasy
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Who will come to the aid of beleaguered King Hrothgar, whose warriors have become the prey of the vengeful outcast monster Grendel? A grand and glorious story that has endured for centuries, the ageless classic adventure takes on a breathtaking new...

• Apr-2008
• / Horror
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This collection of twenty-two short stories by the author of Daughter of Hounds and Alabaster, originally published in 2000, firmly established Caitlín R. Kiernan as one of the preeminent voices in dark fantasy today. Through a cycle of interconnect...

• Aug-2008
• / Paranormal Romance
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LOVE IS A WEAPON IN THE FACE OF EVIL From the biggest names in paranormal romance, here are over 25 tales of a hunger like no other. In the world of the Undead there are strange codes of conduct, dark rituals, and dating games, as they seduce the ...

• Aug-2008
• / Paranormal Romance
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LOVE IS A WEAPON IN THE FACE OF EVIL From the biggest names in paranormal romance, here are over 25 tales of a hunger like no other. In the world of the Undead there are strange codes of conduct, dark rituals, and dating games, as they seduce the ...

• 2009
• / Fantasy
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The undead are more alive today than ever. Immortal? Indeed! Nothing has sunk its teeth into twenty-first century popular culture as pervasively as the vampire. The fangsters have the freedom to fly across all genres and all mediums - there''s even a...

• Feb-2009
• / Fantasy
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A is for Alien is award-winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan s first collection devoted entirely to her science-fiction work. It includes the critically acclaimed novelette Riding the White Bull (chosen for The Year s Best Science Fiction, 22nd Annual ...

• Aug-2009
• / Fantasy
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Sarah Crowe left Atlanta, and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship, to live alone in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant-a parapsychologist obsessed wit...

• Sep-2009
• / Paranormal Romance
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This exciting follow-up to the wildly successful Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance contains 30 short stories of hot blood, midnight pleasures, and inhuman passions. Containing the best names in the field, such as Eileen Wilks, Caitlin Kittredge, Jennif...

• Jul-2010
• / Fantasy
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In Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Ammonite Violin & Others, one of contemporary dark fantasy's most bewitching and distinctive voices is back with another banquet of the weird and unexpected. In his introduction, Jeff VanderMeer (City of Saints and Madmen...

• Jul-2011
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Featuring original stories from 20 authors, this dark, captivating, fabulous and fantastical collection, Naked City, is not to be missed! Edited by award-winning editor Ellen Datlow.In this thrilling collection of original stories some of today's hot...

• Sep-2011
• / Horror
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Two Worlds and In Between: The Best of Caitlin R. Kiernan (Volume One) presents a stunning retrospective of the first ten years of her work, a compilation of more than two hundred thousand words of short fiction, including many of her most acclaimed ...

• Mar-2012
• / Fantasy
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India Morgan Phelps-Imp to her friends-is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, Imp must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth-or from something far, far stranger......

• Aug-2012
• / Horror
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Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart is the follow-up to Caitlín R. Kiernan's World-Fantasy Award nominated The Ammonite Violin & Others, a collection that drew comparisons to the writings of such luminaries of the macabre and surreal as Angela Car...

• Mar-2013
• / General Fiction
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Dancy Flammarion may look like a frail teenage girl, but her journey through the swamps and byways of the American South brings her into battle with werewolves, monsters, and grotesque secrets, armed only with a knife and a mission to destroy the dea...

• Dec-2013
• / Fantasy
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In The Ape's Wife and Other Stories--Kiernan's twelfth collection of short fiction since 2001--she displays the impressive range that characterizes her work. With her usual disregard for genre boundaries, she masterfully navigates the territories tha...

• Feb-2014
• / Dark Fantasy
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An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched back roads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the...

• May-2014
• / Fantasy
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Dancy Flammarion possesses a savvy awareness and a keen knife for the monsters that lurk in the shadows. She does the bidding of an unholy host, a legion of dark gods guiding her across America's southern wilds. And a blackbird's grim tales of her ba...

• Dec-2015
• / Horror
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In his Locus review of ''Two Worlds and In Between''--the first volume of The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan--Gary K. Wolfe wrote, ''...it makes you wish the second volume were here now.'' Well, the long wait is almost over. ''Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: T...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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“Caitlin R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the lost.” �"Neil GaimanA year after her death in a burning barn, Dancy Flammarion now finds herself in a hell of her own creation. A new evil haunts the sun-scorched back roads and ...

• Mar-2017
• / Science Fiction
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A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither ...

• Apr-2017
• / Horror
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What exactly is the difference between a love letter and a suicide note? Is there really any difference at all? These might be the questions posed by Dear Sweet Filthy World, Caitlin R. Kiernan's fourteenth collection of short fiction, comprised of t...

• May-2018
• / Science Fiction
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A dark jewel of a novella, this definitive edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan’s BLACK HELICOPTERS is the expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award-nominated original. Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dream...

• Sep-2018
• / Science Fiction
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"Pure genius."―New York Times“Lyrically compelling tales that are nearly impossible to stop reading...fans of weird writers like Carmen Maria Machado, Jeff VanderMeer, and China Mieville will be glad to find this volume and thereby discover a wri...

• Nov-2018
• / Science Fiction
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Almost nothing is only what it seems to be at first glance. Appearances can be deceiving and first impressions often lead us disastrously astray. If we're not careful, assumption and expectation can betray us all the way to madness and death and damn...

• Sep-2019
• / Fantasy
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Since H.P. Lovecraft first invited colleagues such as Frank Belknap Long and Robert Bloch (among others) to join in his creation of what has come to be known as “The Cthulhu Mythos” (over Lovecraft's less invocative name of “Yog-Sothery”)...

• Jul-2020
• / Science Fiction
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Winner of the Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Awards: “Twenty insanely inventive, hauntingly atmospheric and flat out coo coo for Cocoa Puffs stories” (Hellnotes).   A World Fantasy Award nominee, “this anthology . . . is a ...

• Oct-2020
• / Dark Fantasy
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A rundown apartment in Koreatown. A Los Angeles winter. A strung out, worn out, wrecked and used government agent is scraped up off the pavement, cleaned up, and reluctantly sent out into battle one last time. Ellison Nicodemo has seen and done te...

• Nov-2020
• / Fantasy
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Possibly Caitlín R. Kiernan's most enduring character, albino monster slayer Dancy Flammarion has been carving a bloody swath across the American South ever since her first appearance in Threshold (2001), laying the bad folks low...

• Dec-2021
• / Horror
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In Vile Affections, Caitlín R. Kiernan's seventeenth short fiction collection, the boundaries of desire, fascination, passion, and dread collide. That which is beautiful may easily be profane. Those who love us may devour us alive. A shadow ma...

• Sep-2022
• / Fantasy
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Long, long, long ago, in my faraway twenties, I stumbled across a comic book adaptation of Harlan Ellison's exquisite The Chocolate Alphabet. I thought, Wow, this looks like fun. One day I'll write one of these of m...

• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction
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• / Horror
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An exclusive, profusely illustrated hardcover novella related to CaitlÌn's harrowing new novel, Threshold!

Late one night, on a lonely south Georgia highway, a very strange car picks up an even stranger hitchhiker and the fates of all concerned b...