Author: Mark

  Karys Eska is a deathspeaker, locked into an irrevocable compact with Sabaster, a terrifying eldritch being—three-faced, hundred-winged, unforgiving—who has granted her the ability to communicate with the newly departed. She pays the rent by using her abilities to investigate suspicious deaths around the troubled city she calls home. When a job goes sideways and...

  In an Empire run on necromancy, dead sorcerers are the lifeblood. Their corpses are wrapped in chains and drained of magic to feed the unquenchable hunger for imperial conquest. Born with magic, Arienne has become resigned to her dark fate. But when the voice of a long-dead sorcerer begins to speak inside her head,...

There’s little that reality TV audiences love more than a proper transformation. There’s the discovery of little-known talent (American Idol, America’s Got Talent), plucking ordinary folks out of obscurity and building them into stars. There’s an entire matrimonial relationship arc (The Bachelor, Love is Blind) constructed in less time than it takes to assemble a piece...

We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from American Ghoul, a new horror novel by Michelle McGill-Vargas, out from Blackstone Publishing on September 3rd. That’s what Lavinia keeps telling her jailer after—allegedly—killing her mistress, Simone Arceneau. But how could Simone be dead when she was taking callers just a few minutes before? And why was her house...

We’re thrilled to share the first chapter from J. M. Miro’s Bringer of Dust, the sequel to Ordinary Monsters and the second book in The Talents—out from Flatiron Books on September 17th. You can also listen to the same excerpt from the audiobook edition, read by Ben Onwukwe. But when a body is discovered in the shadow of...

Whether you’re a fan of Shakespeare or not, whether you’ve read Macbeth in school or not, you’ll probably have heard of Lady Macbeth, well known as one of Shakespeare’s most formidable villains. Wife to the titular Macbeth in the play, she is his partner in crime, his intellectual equal and the aggressive driving force in his life,...