{"title":"Gwendolyn Kiste","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-haunted-houses-she-calls-her-own-paperback","title":"The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Truth is rarely convenient as silence.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated author Gwendolyn Kiste cordially invites you to explore \u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own\u003c\/em\u003e. Enter a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past still reverberate and shape our doom. Here, morally complex women and queer antiheroines swim against the current of a social structure that serves as a spectral prison in these layered stories of the weird and the Other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for crafting bold metafictional narratives that grapple with challenging social issues, Kiste's unwavering voice deftly weaves a siren's song of resilience and survival. Included among the short stories in this collection are the Bram Stoker Award-winning \"The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt From Lucy Westenra's Diary),\" \"The Girls From the Horror Movie,\" \"The Sea Witch of the World's Fair,\" and other riveting new gothic tales of body horror, the supernatural, and unapologetic resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"What's going on inside you?\" I ask, but the darkness never whispers back. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101120205023,"sku":"9798900580043","price":20.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Efju70nPsN9798900580043.webp?v=1781068296"},{"product_id":"the-haunting-of-velkwood-paperback","title":"The Haunting of Velkwood - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes an \"emotionally devastating, character driven ghost story\" (\u003ci\u003eCrimeReads\u003c\/i\u003e) about three childhood friends who miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned to ghosts--perfect for fans of \u003ci\u003eYellowjackets.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enter--and only one has in the past twenty years, until now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTalitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the small town she so desperately wanted to escape from. When a new researcher tracks her down and offers to pay her to come back to enter the vicinity, Talitha claims she's just doing it for the money. Of all the crackpot theories over the years, no one has discovered what happened the night Talitha, her estranged, former best friend Brett, and Grace, escaped their homes twenty years ago. Will she finally get the answers she's been looking for all these years, or is this just another dead end? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAward-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste has created an \"eerie and evocative\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) suburban ghost story about a small town that trapped three young women who must confront the past if they're going to have a future.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101248393439,"sku":"9781668034248","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/SlqlmfwLWV9781668034248.webp?v=1781068557"},{"product_id":"the-haunted-houses-she-calls-her-own-hardcover","title":"The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Truth is rarely convenient as silence.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated author Gwendolyn Kiste cordially invites you to explore \u003cem\u003eThe Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own\u003c\/em\u003e. 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