Eminence Front [Paperback]

A winter storm ravages a small community in New England, but the residents of one street are unprepared for what the snow brings: an ancient curse, an entity that knows both their sins and their regrets and will stop at nothing to consume what belongs to it.

When John Stephenson peers out of his window on a Tuesday morning, he sees nothing but clear, gray skies hovering above the houses on his staid suburban street, but the next 48 hours will prove to be a waking nightmare from which John and his neighbors cannot escape. As the first flakes fall, the whispering begins. A woman walking her dog leans into the sidewalk as though something buried beneath speaks to her. As the storm grows in ferocity, each of the residents hear the storm calling.

What it says, however, few may survive to repeat.

From Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award finalist Rebecca Rowland comes a winter horror novel of cosmic proportions, one in which one neighborhood comes face to face, and ear to ear, with a malevolence as old as the world itself.

USPraised by Rue Morgue Magazine as a “dark fiction talent who deftly wed[s] hardcore horror and true, affecting pathos,” Rebecca Rowland is a Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award finalist.Cemetery Dancestated that her fiction “reeks ofThe Twilight Zonein all the best ways.” Despite her love of the ocean and distaste for cold weather, Rebecca makes her home in a landlocked and often icy corner of New England (USA). She is represented by Becky LeJeune of Bond Literary Agency.

"To be savored on the coldest of days, Rowland'sEminence Frontis a well-balanced blend of psychology, quiet cosmic dread, and a blood-red smattering of splatterpunk." —Cemetery Dance

"Rowland delivers a slow burn suffocating descent into dread, paranoia creeps on to every page, making the familiar feel increasingly more uncanny and like you'vel#g