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THE EPIC TALE OF MEDIEVAL HORROR DRIVING BOOKTOK WILD 'A beautiful nightmare that grips you from start to finish' VICTORIA AVEYARD This edition includes a critical foreword from bestselling author Joe Hill The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone...
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THE EPIC TALE OF MEDIEVAL HORROR DRIVING BOOKTOK WILD
'A beautiful nightmare that grips you from start to finish' VICTORIA AVEYARD
This edition includes a critical foreword from bestselling author Joe Hill
The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village.
An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in a second war on heaven, and that the world of men has fallen behind the lines of conflict.
Is it delirium or is it faith? She believes she has seen the angels of God. She believes the righteous dead speak to her in dreams. And now she has convinced the faithless Thomas to shepherd her across a depraved landscape to Avignon. There, she tells Thomas, she will fulfil her mission: to confront the evil that has devastated the earth, and to restore to this betrayed, murderous knight the nobility and hope of salvation he long abandoned.
As hell unleashes its wrath, and as the true nature of the girl is revealed, Thomas will find himself on a macabre battleground of angels and demons, saints, and the risen dead, and in the midst of a desperate struggle for nothing less than the soul of man.
PRAISE FOR THE SMASH-HIT Between Two Fires
'Breathlessly paced and fiercely cinematic, it's just a classic' JOE HILL
'Buehlman is a master of horror' ED CROCKER
'An absolute masterpiece' GRIMDARK MAGAZINE
'Thoroughly riveting, visceral and, ultimately, hopeful' FANFIADDICT
'A harrowing, haunting, heartfelt journey into darkness' JOE ABERCROMBIE
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399638388
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 28 January 2027
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Gollancz
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 448
About the Author
Christopher Buehlman (@Buehlmeister) is a native Floridian and author of the literary horror novels 'Those Across the River' and 'Between Two Fires.' He is the winner of the 2007 Bridport Prize in poetry, and the author of several provocative plays, including Hot Nights for the War Wives of Ithaka. Many know him as comedian Christophe the Insultor, something of a cult figure on the renaissance festival circuit. He lives in Ohio. His first novel, 'Those Across the River,' was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for best novel in 2012.
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