“With her adult debut, Kurtagich presents a chilling, gothic, and contemporary revisioning of the most famous vampire tale, filled with gruesome twists and lots of bite.”
After an unexpected email from her long lost friend, Lucy, Mina Murray’s orderly life is torn to shreds. She leaves her psychiatric practice in London and returns to the shores of Wales. While dealing with everything she’s left behind, Mina learns Lucy’s strange symptoms are just like one of her own patients over one hundred miles away.
With only this odd untreatable illness connecting these two women—and Lucy’s life hanging in the balance—Mina digs deeper and finds herself drawn into a web of secrets and missing girls, and a nameless force at the center of it all … a force that’s been haunting Mina for years.
Ancient truths are revealed, and Mina prepares to confront her own dark secrets. An evil beyond any comprehension is coming, and Mina grasps at one last chance to stop the cycle that began so long ago.
Beware what waits in the shadows…
Why we’re excited about this book:
Well-known in the YA horror fiction scene, Dawn Kurtagich has made the leap to more adult centered horror fiction, and is a voice readers definitely need to have on their radar. Kurtagich is the author of The Dead House, And the Trees Crept In, Teeth in the Mist, Blood on the Wind, and The Creeper Man among others. With her adult debut, Kurtagich presents a chilling, gothic, and contemporary revisioning of the most famous vampire tale, filled with gruesome twists and lots of bite. Josh Winning (Burn the Negative) says: “Fiercely feminist and fantastically eerie, The Madness is Welsh Gothic at its most intoxicating. Dawn Kurtagich really is the queen of darkness, drawing beautifully on Bram Stoker’s Dracula to deliver a story that’s smart, fresh and frightening in equal measure. This book wraps itself around you like a wraith and refuses to let go.”, and Gwendolyn Kiste (The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals) says: “The Madness is everything a great horror novel should be and more—a creeping tale that gets its claws into you and doesn’t let go. It’s a story about pain, trauma, and ultimately hope, and needless to say, it belongs at the top of your TBR pile.”
Releasing from Graydon House 27 August 2024, The Madness by Dawn Kurtagich is available for pre-order now.
BOB PASTORELLA
