In Matthew Lyons' pulse-pounding crime horror,A Mask of Flies, a criminal on the run after a failed heist must confront dark family secrets and demons from her past made flesh.
One of Lit Hub's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024! |Longlisted for Reading the West Book Awards!
THE PAST HAS TEETH
In the grisly aftermath of a botched bank heist, career criminal Anne Heller has no choice but to return to her familys cabin a secluded shack in Colorados San Luis Valley, and the site of her mothers untimely death.
Along for the ride are Jessup, Annes badly wounded partner, and Dutch, the police officer shes taken hostage. As they wait for help, Anne discovers strange relics from her mothers past and begins to unfold the mystery of her childhood at the cabin.
Then Jessup goes missing, only to turn up dead. Anne and Dutch bury her friend, but that night, he comes back and knocks at the cabin door.
Not a dream, not a hallucination, but not exactly Jessup, either. Something else. Something wearing her friends face. Something hungry...
An addictive thrill ride. Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW
MATTHEW LYONS is the author of the novels
A Mask of Flies,
A Black and Endless Sky, and
The Night Will Find Us, as well as over three dozen short stories, appearing in the 2018 edition of Best American Short Stories, Tough, Southwest Review, and more.
One of Lit Hub'sBest Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024!
Longlisted for Reading the West Book Awards!
A Mask of Fliesblows through the intersection at Horror Street and Crime Avenue and doesnt let off the accelerator as it takes you on a white-knuckled ride to places you do not expect.
Chuck Wendig,New York Timesbestselling author ofBlack River Orchard
Cinematic, gruesome, hyper-violent, and lÃÂ
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