by Allyson Longueira | Mar 11, 2014
Dread Unlocks
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
In Los Angeles, everyone knows Ms. Tarbell dispels dread. She finds an amazing amount of it in that sunlight-filled city, but nothing like the unnamed horror she faces on her current case. It arrives in a van. It has cameras, an agenda, and the ability to change her life in awful, nasty, inconceivable ways. First written for a Lovecraft celebration, “Dread Unlocks” reveals the creeping uncontrollable dread in modern life, a dread Lovecraft himself might find too horrible to contemplate.
“Kristine Kathryn Rusch integrates the fantastic elements so rigorously into her story that it is often hard to remember she is not merely recording the here and now.”
by Allyson Longueira | Mar 5, 2014
The Best Defense
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
John Lundgren loves the challenge of defending his clients. As a public defender in the great city of Chicago, he defends them all: the guilty, the not-so-guilty, and the bug-eyed crazy. But when he gets assigned Richard Palmer, a highly intelligent man accused of an impossible arson and horrific mass murder, he soon discovers this case will challenge him like no other—just not in any way he ever expected.
“[Rusch’s] short fiction is golden.”
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 27, 2014
Façade
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Thomas fell in love with the Oregon Coast while filming his signature role as Anthony Short. Then his estranged daughter, Heather, died there, and Thomas fled. Now, he returns, not to solve his daughter’s murder, but to see if he can live with himself and his past.
Only someone leaves mysterious notes, signed Your Daughter, and birds die on his porch. Strangers report a man in a cloak who looks just like Thomas, but the fans who follow him everywhere don’t see anyone.
But Thomas knows something strange lurks in the shadows. Then more people die and Thomas realizes he holds the key to it all. He alone can solve the crisis, if he only dares…
“Rusch’s [Façade] is an exceptionally effective casebook of abnormal psychology…Rich and revelatory. The ending is perfect.”
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 27, 2014
Fantasy
Available in:
ebook, $5.99
Trade paperback, $18.99
ISBN 978-0615667195
audiobook
Sins of the Blood
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
When she was a little girl, Cammie drove a wooden stake through her father’s heart to save her brother Ben’s life. Separated by the system, Cammie lost track of Ben.
Now Cammie works as an eradicator, a vampire slayer for a privately funded organization. But she can’t forget her brother. She leaves her job and her home to discover what happened to Ben.
Instead, she discovers what price she paid for her own survival. She learns about her family, and its legacy. She learns what it really means to have sins of the blood.
A memorable cult classic of vampirism, Sins of the Blood is the most shocking book Kristine Kathryn Rusch has ever written.
“It’s horror in the same way that Robert Bloch’s Psycho is—horror of the soul.”
by Allyson Longueira | Feb 25, 2014
Ghosts of Christmas Present
Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Alone for Christmas, Michela longs for the past, the future—anything but the present. The present holds pain, loneliness, longing, loathing. The present offers nothing but ghosts and nightmares about deeds that cannot be undone. To see her son again, Michela must face her ghosts on this Christmas Eve night—even if by doing so she becomes one herself.
Like early Ray Bradbury, Rusch has the ability to switch on a universal dark.
