From Bram Stoker Award nominated author Kaaron Warren, comes Book 6 in the Twelve Planets collection series.

Country road, city street, mountain, creek.

These are stories inspired by the beauty, the danger, the cruelty, emptiness, loneliness and perfection of the Australian landscape.

'Every Warren story is a trip with no map.' – Gemma Files

'Her fiction shifts across genres smoothly and intelligently, never settling for the easy path... she doesn't flinch.' – Andrew Hook

'As with most of the best horror writing ... the power of Warren's strongest stories comes from the mirror they hold up to our everyday practices and prejudices.' – Ian McHugh

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'Wholly unique and deeply compelling' - ESQUIRE
'Hauntingly creepy' - ERIN KELLY
'A heartfelt and chilling gothic tragedy' - CHRIS WHITAKER
People come to visit my home and I love to show them around. It's not the original house of course. That was destroyed the day my entire family died. But I don't think their ghosts know the difference.
Pera Sinclair was nine the day the pilot intentionally crashed his plane into her family's grand home, killing everyone inside. She was the girl who survived the tragedy, a sympathetic oddity, growing stranger by the day. Over the decades she rebuilt the huge and rambling building on the original site, recreating what she had lost, each room telling a piece of the story of her life and that of the many people who died there, both before and after the disaster. Her sister, murdered a hundred miles away. The soldier, broken by war. Death follows Pera, and she welcomes it in as an old friend....]]> Fri, 14 Jun 2024 16:21:19 +0300 https://library.land/kaaron-warren/686962-calvaria_fell.html https://library.land/kaaron-warren/686962-calvaria_fell.html
Calvaria Fell is a stunning collaborative collection of weird tales from two acclaimed authors, Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks. It features previously published stories from both authors, along with a new novella by Kaaron Warren and four new stories by Cat Sparks.The collection offers a glimpse into a chilling future world that is similar to our own. Readers will be drawn into experiences at once familiar and bizarre, where our choices have far-reaching consequences and the environment is a force to be reckoned with.The title of the collection tethers these stories to a shared space. The calvaria is the top part of the skull, comprising five plates that fuse together in the first few years of life. Story collections work like this; disparate parts melding together to make a robust and sturdy whole. The calvaria tree, also known as the dodo tree, adapted to being eaten by the now-extinct dodo bird; its seeds need to pass through the bird' s digestive tract in order to germinate. In...]]> Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:10:52 +0300 https://library.land/kaaron-warren/692276-the_grief_hole.html https://library.land/kaaron-warren/692276-the_grief_hole.html
Winner, Best Horror Novel, 2016 Aurealis AwardsWinner, Best Novel, 2016 Shadow AwardsWinner, Best Novel, 2016 Ditmar Awards There are many grief holes. There's the grief hole you fall into when a loved one dies. There's another grief hole in all of us; small or large, it determines how much we want to live. And there are the geographical grief holes, the buildings that attract sorrow and loss and are filled with ghosts. Theresa sees these ghosts better than most, but can she figure out how to close the holes?]]> Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:25:19 +0300 https://library.land/kaaron-warren/707495-bright_hearts.html https://library.land/kaaron-warren/707495-bright_hearts.html

A florist becomes obsessed with the strange, haunting red flowers she buys from an equally strange old lady...
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