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![Rawblood by Catriona Ward. Winner of Best Horror Novel (August Derleth Award) at the British Fantasy Awards 2016.
She comes in the night. She looks into your eyes. One by one, she has taken us all.
For generations they have died young, and now fifteen-year-old Iris and her father are the last of the Villarca line. Confined to their lonely mansion on Dartmoor, they suffer their disease in isolation. But Iris breaks her promise to hide from the world and dares to fall in love.
It is only then that they understand the true horror of the Villarca curse, the curse of the bone-white woman who visits in the night, leaving death in her wake.
Reviews
A story to satisfy the most gothic of hearts. I was hooked on the very first page and [RAWBLOOD] never let me go. Sentence by sentence, Catriona Ward made herself one of my very favorite writers.
— Kelly Link, 2016 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, author of GET IN TROUBLE
A gothic tale of love and madness, this atmospheric and chilling story drew me in from the first page, and kept me up at night, until I reached the last.
— Claire Fuller, author of OUR ENDLESS NUMBERED DAYS
Brilliant: RAWBLOOD is the old-school gothic novel I have been waiting for. While it delivers everything I want from a "haunted house/family curse" story it is still stunningly original. I have never read anything like it and that's saying something.
— Mike Mignola, creator of HELLBOY](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5xkb4nearpf2gztbzlija2mi/bafkreifjk7aehpkbzn7pqp2dqatfrb7pfwnrprsnyjtea4sidvqdiedq2i)
![This “tour de force” (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2026, and has never been out of print since its first publication.
Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters. With Wide Sargasso Sea, her last and best-selling novel, she ingeniously brings into light one of fiction’s most fascinating characters: the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
Reviews
The distillation of [Rhys's] life and craft… Nowhere is her prose more supple, more assured.
― Sara Paretsky, You Must Read This, NPR
Working a stylistic range from moody introspection to formal elegance, Miss Rhys has us traveling under Antoinette’s skin. It is an eerie and memorable trip.
― The Nation](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5xkb4nearpf2gztbzlija2mi/bafkreie4t7g2fatqijv4yroxpwwggbqzpbkulkl7r6xz7r7ei3i2uxfqce)
