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Cassandra Khaw

    Cassandra Khaw crea historias que profundizan en los aspectos inquietantes de la naturaleza humana y las complicadas consecuencias de las malas decisiones. Su escritura se caracteriza por su cruda honestidad y una aguda observación de las vulnerabilidades que desvían a los personajes. Khaw explora magistralmente la tensión entre lo ordinario y lo horrible, a menudo dentro de los límites de un escenario de casa embrujada. Sus narrativas atrapan a los lectores con su examen impávido de individuos imperfectos que navegan por situaciones peligrosas.

    The Salt Grows Heavy
    Hammers on Bone
    The All-Consuming World
    The Carrion City - The Dead Take the A Train
    Critical Role: Bells Hells--What Doesn't Break
    Critical Role: Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break
    • Exploring the lost years of an undead spellcaster, this prequel novel delves into Laudna's journey from Whitestone to Jrusar. Haunted by a guiding voice, she grapples with her monstrous nature while yearning for more—life, love, and magic. As she navigates a world filled with heroes who seek to eliminate beings like her, the tension between her desires and the dangers they bring intensifies. Written by bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, this tale reveals the challenges and transformations that shape Laudna before joining Bells Hells.

      Critical Role: Bells Hells - What Doesn't Break
      4,4
    • Critical Role: Bells Hells--What Doesn't Break

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Delve into the untold backstory of a beloved undead spellcaster, exploring her journey before joining Bells Hells. This prequel novel reveals the lost years filled with challenges and growth, showcasing her unique personality and the vibrant world she inhabits. Fans of Critical Role will enjoy the deeper insights into her character and the adventures that shaped her before the main storyline.

      Critical Role: Bells Hells--What Doesn't Break
      4,2
    • The Carrion City - The Dead Take the A Train

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      The story follows Julie Crews, a struggling thirty-something with a turbulent lifestyle who seeks to make her mark as a Psychic Operative in New York City's competitive magic scene. Despite her chaotic life and reliance on substances, she is determined to take on even the most challenging assignments to rise in the ranks and prove her worth in a world filled with supernatural intrigue.

      The Carrion City - The Dead Take the A Train
      3,5
    • The All-Consuming World

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      In Locus and British Fantasy Award nominee Cassandra Khaw's first novel, a crew of diminished former criminals get back together to solve the mystery of their last, disastrous mission. But the universe's highly-evolved AI has its own opposing agenda and will do whatever it takes to keep humans from ever controlling them again.

      The All-Consuming World
      3,1
    • Hammers on Bone

      • 107 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      Cassandra Khaw's debut, Hammers on Bone, is a hard-boiled horror tale featuring John Persons, a private investigator hired by a ten-year-old to kill her abusive stepdad. As he delves into the case, he discovers his own dark, alien infection. Can he stop the monster without unleashing his own horrors?

      Hammers on Bone
      3,6
    • The Salt Grows Heavy

      • 112 páginas
      • 4 horas de lectura

      From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a dark and deliciously twisted mermaid tale. After murdering her husband and burning his kingdom to cinders, a mermaid joins a strange doctor on a journey through the eerie taiga. Deep in the woods, the pair stumble upon a village, full of seemingly ageless children and the three surgeons who oversee them—called only “the saints.” After discovering the villagers’ taste for a sinister blood sport, the mermaid and her companion must embrace the darkest parts of their true nature, if they hope to survive.

      The Salt Grows Heavy
      3,6
    • The Library at Hellebore

      • 286 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and The Atlas Six who are hungry for something a little more diabolical. A gorgeous hardcover edition featuring sprayed edges! This school will eat you alive. The Hellebore Technical Institute for the Gifted is the premier academy for the dangerously powerful: the Anti-Christs and Ragnaroks, the world-eaters and apocalypse-makers. Hellebore promises redemption, acceptance, and a normal life after graduation. At least, that’s what Alessa Li is told when she’s kidnapped and forcibly enrolled. But there’s more to Hellebore than meets the eye. On graduation day, the faculty go on a ravenous rampage, feasting on Alessa’s class. Only Alessa and a group of her classmates escape the carnage. Trapped in the school’s library, they must offer a human sacrifice every night, or else the faculty will break down the door and kill everyone. Can they band together and survive, or will the faculty eat its fill? Also by Cassandra Khaw: The Salt Grows Heavy Nothing But Blackened Teeth A Song for Quiet Hammers on Bone The Dead Take the A Train (co-written with Richard Kadrey)

      The Library at Hellebore
      3,4
    • "Khaw's got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it." -Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. A gorgeously creepy classic haunted house story based on Japanese folklore, combining The Haunting of Hill House with The Ring.[Bokinfo]

      Nothing But Blackened Teeth
      2,6