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A Cosmology of Monsters

Shaun Hamill

A Cosmology of Monsters

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June 30, 2020
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By turns moving and harrowing, and not for the faint hearted.
The Guardian

Synopsis

It meets Stranger Things in a tender and terrifying coming-of-age tale of haunted houses and the monster at the door.

Noah Turner's family are haunted by monsters that are all too real, strange creatures that visit them all: His bookish mother Margaret; Lovecraft-obsessed father Harry; eldest sister Sydney, born for the spotlight; the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a gifted writer and storyteller - the Turners each face their demons alone.

When his terminally-ill father becomes obsessed with the construction of an elaborate haunted house - the Wandering Dark - the family grant his last wish, creating themselves a legacy, and a new family business in their grief. But families don't talk about the important things, and they try to shield baby Noah from horrors, both staged and real.

As the family falls apart, fighting demons of poverty, loss and sickness, the real monsters grow ever closer. Unbeknownst to them, Noah is being visited by a wolfish beast with glowing orange eyes. Noah is not the first of the Turners to meet the monster, but he is the first to let it into his room...

Product Information

Number of pages
448
Publisher
Titan Books Ltd
#ISBN
Number of pages
9781789094114
Date of Publication
June 30, 2020
Format
Paperback
Weight
326
g
Dimensions
13
x
19.8
x
3.2
cm

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Reviews

Sometimes you read a book and you know it's special. A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill is just such a book. It's a book about family, love, loss, obsession . . . and monsters. Unique and wonderful. You won't read anything like it this year.
C. J. Tudor, author of The Chalk Man and The Hiding Place
Brilliantly combines the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft with a contemporary story of a family under threat of destruction from supernatural forces... Hamill's prose is simple, and simply beautiful. If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it, and think you will, too.
Stephen King

About the author

Shaun Hamill

A native of Arlington, Texas, Shaun Hamill holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and his fiction has appeared in Carve and Spilt Infinitive. If you really want to embarrass him, go check out the short films on his IMDB page. He currently lives in Alabama with his wife, his in-laws, and his dog. A Cosmology of Monsters is his first novel.

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