Cassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene withHammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016. A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella!
John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. Hes been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kids stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable.
Hes also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, hes hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his teeth.
As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he carries something far darker. Hes infected with an alien presence, and hes spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the holds on his own horrifying potential.
CASSANDRA KHAW is an award-winning game writer, and currently works as a scriptwriter for Ubisoft Montreal. Khaw's work can be found in places like
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Tor.com. Khaw's first original novella,
Hammers on Bone, was a British Fantasy Award and Locus Award finalist.
Cassandra Khaw's explosive, evocative prose is a treat to read. Khaw's ability to transform the mundane into the deeply phantasmagorical is nothing short of magical. Prepare to take a long leap into the gory, the weird, and the fantastic in the hands of a fresh new voice in fiction. Kameron Hurley, Hugo Award-winning author ofMirror EmpireandThe Geek Feminist Revolution
Khaw brilliantly combines the self-aware, on-point tone of their gumshoe narrator with the invasive rhythm of the language of pulsing terrors. The drearily everydalÖ
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