The Monster of Elendhaven

The Monster of Elendhaven"A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it." Joe Hill A Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both. The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not

"A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it." --Joe Hill

A Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award

Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.

The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster's heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.

These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tordotcom
Published: 09/24/2019
ISBN: 9781250225689
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.80d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/03/2019
Library Journal 07/01/2019 pg. 56
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 46
Shelf Awareness 10/04/2019