Name: Reluctant Immortals, Paperback/Gwendolyn Kiste
Brand: Gallery / Saga Press
Price: 84.00 RON
Availability: InStock

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For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature--from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre--as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967.Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Combining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man's world. Gwendolyn Kiste is the Bram Stoker Award shy;-winning author of The Rust Maidens , And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe , Pretty Marys All in a Row , The Invention of Ghosts , Boneset Feathers , and Reluctant Immortals . Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Nightmare Magazine , Tor's Nightfire , Vastarien , Black Static , Daily Science Fiction , Unnerving , Interzone , and LampLight , as well as Flame Tree P