A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill; Stormblood by Jeremy Szal; Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; Eden by Tim Lebbon; and We Ride the Storm by Devin Madson
Billed as literary horror and with an endorsement from Stephen King, Shaun Hamill’s first novel, A Cosmology of Monsters (Titan, £8.99), won considerable praise on its 2019 US publication. The novel opens with a disturbing first line (“I started collecting my older sister Eunice’s suicide notes when I was seven years old”) and continues in the same tone for more than 400 pages. Set in small-town Texas, it follows the fortunes of the Turner family, who maintain a haunted house open to paying visitors. Narrator Noah Turner chronicles the history of his disturbed clan from the 1970s to the 2000s, during which time they are plagued by Lovecraftian monsters from another dimension. Hamill examines the family members’ tortured reactions to the hauntings as they are beset by tragedy after tragedy: cancer, suicide, disappearances and deaths. It’s a grim ride, by turns moving and harrowing, and not for the faint-hearted.
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