Dreams of
Shreds and Tatters will be released in June 2015.
Downum’s urban
fantasy novel centres around the King in Yellow from the wider HP Lovecraft mythos.
When Liz Drake's
best friend vanishes, nothing can stop her nightmares. Driven by the certainty
he needs her help, she crosses a continent to search for him.
She finds Blake
comatose in a Vancouver hospital, victim of a mysterious accident that claimed
his lover's life. Blake's new circle of artists and mystics draws her in, but
all of them are lying or keeping dangerous secrets. Soon nightmare creatures
stalk the waking city, and Liz can't fight a dream from the daylight world: to
rescue Blake she must brave the darkest depths of the dreamlands. Even the
attempt could kill her, or leave her mind trapped or broken.
And if she succeeds,
she must face the monstrous Yellow King, whose slave Blake is on the verge of
becoming forever.
“To find a
Lovecraftian novel that brings something new to the field, is a rare thing
indeed,” says Solaris editor-in-chief
Jonathan Oliver. “And Downum is an extraordinary writer, revealing a
world of dreams and nightmares of which Howard Philips himself would be proud.
Amanda is one of the most exciting and progressive fantasy writers of recent
years.”
About the Author
Amanda Downum
lives in Austin, Texas. She is the author of the Necromancer Chronicles – The
Drowning City, The Bone Palace, and Kingdoms of Dust – published
by Orbit Books. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Realms
of Fantasy, Weird Tales, and in the anthologies Lovecraft Unbound and
A Fantasy Medley 2. She has seen the Yellow Sign. For more information,
visit www.amandadownum.com.
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