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Black Flame
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An instant USA Today bestseller! One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin. A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret. The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by...
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An instant USA Today bestseller!
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the author of Manhunt, 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 Kramer—deeply closeted and pathologically repressed—begins 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 her—and 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 can't answer but can't get out of her mind: Do you want it? More than anything?
Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:
Manhunt
Cuckoo
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781250348012
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 August 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Tor Nightfire
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 141.0mm
Height: 207.0mm
Weight: 186g
Pages: 208
About the Author
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 by Vulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 by Esquire, Library Journal, and Paste. Her sophomore novel, Cuckoo, debuted on the USA Today bestseller list. You can read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon and in TIME, The Outline, Nylon, and more.
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