Bloodshot - Cherie Priest [2]
“[Priest’s] creative vision is unlike anything else in contemporary fantasy.” —Booklist
“[Priest] again demonstrates her keen eye for detail and ambiance as she re-creates an enchanting part of America as the setting for a tale of horror of biblical proportions.” —Library Journal
“Pleasantly offbeat, with plenty of vivid, compelling action sequences.” —Kirkus Reviews
THOSE WHO WENT REMAIN THERE STILL
“Priest’s tightly constructed novel qualifies as a ‘weird Western,’ in the tradition of Joe R. Lansdale’s early work, Nancy Collins’ Walking Wolf, George R.R. Martin’s Fevre Dream and Emma Bull’s Territory.… According to her introduction, the author’s mother refused to read this book because it was too strange and scary. That’s a good enough recommendation for me.” —Rocky Mountain News
“Cherie Priest continues her exploration of place and America’s ghostly history. Her stories and novels are exquisite in the way they tap into our national consciousness.… Priest is not to be missed and this is certainly one of her best pieces of work to date.” —Bookslut
DREADFUL SKIN
“Dreadful Skin’s design is carefully crafted to evoke the penny dreadfuls and melodramas so popular in the nineteenth century, [but] Priest is tackling classic genre questions that feature prominently in such nineteenth-century speculative works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus and Bram Stoker’s Dracula: What separates humans from monsters? How well can we control our beastly instincts? Like her genre forebears, Priest doesn’t offer any easy answers, and her work is all the more memorable as a result.” —Strange Horizons
“While there is still no archetypal werewolf novel in the way Dracula serves for vampires, Dreadful Skin comes closer in my opinion to demonstrating just how seductive and soul-destroying lycanthropy could be.” —Weird Tales
“[Priest] is already a strong voice in dark fantasy and could, with care, be a potent antidote for much of what is lacking elsewhere in the genre this decade.” —Rambles
“A smash bang of a story; a tale that draws readers in from the very beginning and keeps you turning pages long into the night … This one crosses all the genre lines and soundly delivers on the promise of good storytelling. A reader could not ask for anything more from a fiction writer, and Cherie Priest, thankfully, has given us her best.” —Bookslut
“A werewolf-hunting nun, characters portrayed with empathy and skill, Gorey-esque illustrations, high adventure, and pathos—there’s nothing to dislike about Dreadful Skin. Absolutely nothing.” —JESS NEVINS, author of The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana
“When one must become a monster in order to kill a monster, can the hunt still be justified? This book raises tantalizing philosophical questions about good and evil as well as the roles of hunter and prey.” —Publishers Weekly
FOUR AND TWENTY BLACKBIRDS
“Southern Gothic at its best. An absorbing mystery told with humour and bite.” —KELLEY ARMSTRONG, bestselling author of the Women of the Otherworld series
“Cherie Priest has created a chilling page-turner in her debut novel. Her voice is rich, earthy, soulful, and deliciously southern as she weaves a disturbing yarn like a master! Awesome—gives you goosebumps!” —L.A. BANKS, bestselling author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series
“Breathlessly readable, palpably atmospheric, and compellingly suspenseful, Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a considerable debut. It’s written with great control and fluency, and it looks like the start of quite a career.” —RAMSEY CAMPBELL, World Horror Grand Master
“Spooky and engrossing, this revenge play is as sticky as a salmagundi made from blood and swamp dirt. Priest can write scenes that are