The Gathering by C.J. Tudor (Subterranean Press)

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PUBLISHER: Subterranean Press EDITION: Signed Numbered Limited Edition Hardcover PRICE: $100 (preorder—to be published in Spring 2025) Dust jacket illustration by Vincent Chong. About the Book: The cross was on fire. A short distance away, a disemboweled pig lay on the ground, guts steaming in the freezing night air. Its blood had been used to scrawl a message in the snow: “WE ARE GATHERING.” There has not been a murder in Deadhart in twenty-five years… Until the body of a teenage boy is found in an old hunting cabin, completely drained of blood. Local authorities are quick to accuse the Colony: a community of vampyrs who have recently returned to the area. Homicide detective Barbara Atkins is sent to the small Alaskan town to investigate, relying on her study of forensic vampyr anthropology to determine Colony involvement. While she knows that the citizens of Deadhart would prefer her to swiftly condemn the vampyrs to a cull—a government sanctioned killing—Barbara has her doubts about the evidence surrounding the murder. An unexpected ally is found in Jensen Tucker, Deadhart’s former police chief turned recluse, who still bears scars from his investigation into the murder that occurred twenty-five years prior. As Barbara and Tucker dig into the town’s grisly secrets, they slowly unravel mysteries of the present and the past. But fear and prejudice run deep in Deadhart, and as tensions rise between the townsfolk and the Colony, Barbara and Tucker must ask themselves: is the m

• Binding: Hardcover

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