Black Flame [Paperback]

An instantUSA Todaybestseller!

One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing inBlack Flame, from the author ofManhunt,Gretchen Felker-Martin.

A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret.

The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramerdeeply closeted and pathologically repressedbegins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her.

As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to herand that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.

Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen cant answer but cant get out of her mind: Do you want it? More thananything?

Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
Manhunt
Cuckoo

GRETCHEN FELKER-MARTIN is a Massachusetts-based bestselling horror author and film critic. Her debut novel,Manhunt, was named the #1 Best Book of 2022 byVulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 byEsquire,Library Journal, andPaste. Her sophomore novel,Cuckoo, debuted on theUSA Todaybestseller list. You can read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon and inTIME,The Outline,Nylon, and more.

Black Flameis depraved, shocking, and devastatingly beautiful. A hypnotic cosmic horror journey that travels both outward and in, pushing through the viscera and slime to reveal something truly profound about the nature of art itself.
CHUCK TINGLE,USA Todaybestselling author ofBury Your Gays

Nasty, erotic, kinky, vicious, suspenseful....Felker-Martinl£'