Publisher Description
In this mosaic horror/crime novel, ghosts, and old gods guide the hands of those caught up in a violent struggle to save the soul of the American southwest. A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the Mother of Chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his father.
These stories intertwine with those of a vengeful spirit and a hungry creature to paint a timely, compelling, pulpy portrait of revenge, family, and hope.
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About Gabino Iglesias
Gabino Iglesias is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic. His novel, The Devil Takes You Home, won the 2022 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and his reviews appear regularly in the San Francisco Chronicle and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among others. He has been a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards and the Millions Tournament of Books and is a member of the Horror Writers Association, the Mystery Writers of America, and the National Book Critics Circle.
About various narrators
James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.