Caitlin Starling

The Starving Saints (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. . . . This is the unhinged cannibal book of my dreamsand my nightmares. Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning

From the nationally bestselling author of The Luminous Dead and The Death of Jane Lawrence, a transfixing fever dream of medieval horror following three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.

Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months. Food is running low and there has been no sign of rescue. But just as the survivors consider deliberately thinning their number, the castle stores are replenished. The sick are healed. And the divine figures of the Constant Lady and her Saints have arrived, despite the barricaded gates, offering succor in return for adoration.

Soon, the entire castle is under the sway of their saviors, partaking in intoxicating feasts of terrible origin. The war hero Ser Voyne gives her allegiance to the Constant Lady. Phosyne, a disorganized, paranoid nun-turned-sorceress, races to unravel the mystery of these new visitors and exonerate her experiments as their source. And in the bowels of the castle, a serving girl, Treila, is torn between her thirst for a secret vengeance against Voyne and the desperate need to escape from the horrors that are unfolding within Aymar's walls.

As the castle descends into bacchanalian madnessforgetting the massed army beyond its walls in favor of hedonistic ecstasythese three women are the only ones to still see their situation for what it is. But they are not immune from the temptations of the castle's new masters... or each other; and their shifting alliances and entangled pasts bring violence to the surface. To save the castle, and themselves, will take a reimagining of who they are, and a reorganization of the very world itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063418837
• Artikelnr.: 72298444

Autorenporträt

Caitlin Starling is the nationally bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence and the Bram Stoker-nominated The Luminous Dead. Her newest novels, The Starving Saints and Graceview, epitomize her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted hospitals. Her short fiction has been published by GrimDark Magazine and Neon Hemlock, and her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare, Uncanny, and Nightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design, and has been paid to invent body parts. She's always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.

Rezensionen

"As brilliant as it is bizarre. From the very first page you know you are in the hands of an author at the height of their abilities. Truly one of the most inventive, audacious, immersive novels I've ever read. Grips you like the cold sweat of a fever and doesn't let you go until the final moment of dizzying, gut-shot revelation. This is the unhinged cannibal book of my dreams-and my nightmares."
- Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning


"Holy crap on a stick, this book is messed up in the best way. The Starving Saints broke my brain. It's cannibalism like you've never seen it before!"
- T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of Nettle & Bone

"The Starving Saints is a rich, strange, deeply medieval novel that left me astonished and delighted. Starling expertly dismantles our expectations in this perfectly rendered puzzle box of a world. I would follow these women anywhere, which would probably not end well for me."
- Kate Heartfield, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Embroidered Book


"Starling is one of the new leading voices in horror," - Locus

"A delicious Gothic romance.... It has to walk the line between romance and horror and not flinch away from either. The Death of Jane Lawrence is up to this task.... By the time the book reached that point of no return, I was so invested that I would have followed Jane into the very depths of hell." - NPR

"Ghostly, mysterious, and terrifying, The Luminous Dead will have you rooted to the spot until the very last page." - Peng Shepherd, author of The Book of M

"A harrowing, merciless descent into the human psyche. Starling's prose is breathtakingly cinematic and left me without a molecule of spare oxygen. This book will catch you by the ankles and drag you backwards into a terrifying and inescapable reality. Read this one with all the lights on." - Sarah Gailey, Hugo Award-winning author of River of Teeth, on The Luminous Dead

"A tense psychological thriller and a gripping survival story that kept me on the edge of my seat the whole way through. It's a dark ride that's worth every step." - Martha Wells, author of The Murderbot Diaries, on The Luminous Dead