By Steve Rasnic Tem
Dark secrets will be uncovered 26th Feb (US & Can) and
13th Mar (UK)
£7.99 (UK) ISBN 978-1-78108-196-9
$9.99/$12.99 (US & CAN) ISBN 978-1-78108-197-6
“A beautifully crafted
novel.” – The Guardian on Deadfall Hotel
“Richard’s strange
encounters unfold episodically, build[ing] to
a revelatory climax that
Tem engineers perfectly.”
– Publisher’s Weekly on Deadfall
Hotel
An industry legend praised by writers such as Neil Gaiman, Steve Rasnic
Tem returns to Solaris this March with a dark novel of Southern Gothic, ghosts,
witchcraft, snake-handling, and the Great Depression.
Michael Gibson has returned to the quiet home of his forebears and now
takes care of his grandmother Sadie – old and sickly, but with an important
story to tell about growing up poor and Melungeon (a mixed race group of
mysterious origin) in the 1930s, while bedeviled by a snake-handling uncle and
empathic powers she barely understands. In a field not far from the Gibson
family home lies an iron-bound crate within a small shack buried four feet deep
under Kudzu vine. Michael somehow understands that hidden inside that crate is
potentially his own death, his grandmother’s death, and perhaps the deaths of
everyone in the valley if he does not come to understand her story well enough.
This tightly wired novel of Southern haunting cements Tem’s place in
the mainstream as he brings his celebrated creativity to his home state of
Virginia in a revelation of the past’s effects on the present.
Also available by Steve
Rasnic Tem
UK: 978-1-907992-82-7
US/Canada: 978-1907992834
"...just
when you think you've found the lay of the land in this most rich and fertile
of imaginative plains, and you're thrown a twist or turn, or simple line of
speech masquerading as so much more. Just when you think you've nailed a
certain style or emotion in the text and again it buckles and surprises."
– Spooky Reads
"Deadfall Hotel is everything a horror
novel should be. Steve Rasnic Tem is at the height of his powers with this
effort. If you're a fan of horror, the weird, or just plain old great
storytelling, give Deadfall Hotel a read. You won't regret it." – FEARnet
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