Caitlin R. Kiernan
Caitlin R. Kiernan is an International Horror Guild Award winning author and a paleontologist too.
 Beowulf  |
BeowulfAdaptation by: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Who will come to the aid of beleaguered King Hrothgar, whose warriors have become the prey of the vengeful outcast monster Grendel? A grand and glorious story that has endured for centuries, the ageless classic adventure takes on a breathtaking new life in a remarkable new version for a modern era. Brilliantly reimagined by acclaimed, award-winning author CaitlÃn R. Kiernan, based on the screenplay by bestseller Neil Gaiman and screenwriter Roger Avary, it is the tale of a noble liege and a terrible creature who has cursed his kingdom with death, blood, and destruction — and of the great hero, Beowulf, who is called to a land of monsters to triumph where so many have failed . . . or to die as so many of the brave before him. |
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 Tales from the Woeful Platypus |
Tales from the Woeful PlatypusAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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In 2005, Caitlin R. Kiernan surprised her readers with, Frog Toes and Tentacles, a small-form hardcover of “darkly weird erotica.” Now Kiernan follows that sold-out volume with a second collection of her unique brand of erotica, Tales from the Woeful Platypus. Like its predecessor, this book will be illustrated by acclaimed artist Vince Locke (The Sandman, Batman, A History of Violence, Deadworld, etc.), and also like the first volume, it is unlikely ever to be reprinted. Table of Contents:
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 Daughter Of Hounds  |
Daughter Of HoundsAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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They are the Children of the Cuckoo. Stolen from their cribs and concealed in shadows to be raised by ghouls, they are now changelings in service to the creatures who rule the world Below and despise the world Above. Any human contact is strictly forbidden and punishment is swift and severe for those who disobey. Raised by her widower father, Emmie Silvey has a precocious personality and striking yellow eyes that have left her a solitary child. But that changes when two women enter her life — one who stalks her, one who haunts her dreams — both insisting that her entire life is a lie and warning her of an encroaching darkness. |
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 Alabaster  |
AlabasterAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched backroads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. CaitlÃn R. Kiernan first introduced Dancy in the pages of her award-winning second novel, Threshold (2001), then went on to write several more short stories and a novella about this unlikely heroine, each a piece of what has become an epic dark fantasy narrative. Alabaster finally collects all these tales into one volume, illustrated by Ted Naifeh Table of Contents:
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 To Charles Fort, with Love  |
To Charles Fort, with LoveAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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To Charles Fort, with Love is award-winning fantasist CaitlÃn R. Kiernan’s third collection of short fiction, a haunting parade of the terrible things which may lie beyond the boundaries of science, the minds which may exist beyond psychology, and the forbidden places which will never be located in any orthodox globe. To quote the object of Kiernan’s affection, meta-poet and arch-enemy of dogma Charles Hoy Fort, “The little harlots will caper, and freaks will distract attention, and the clowns will break the rhythm of the whole with their buffooneries — but the solidity of the procession as a whole: the impressiveness of things that pass and pass and pass, and keep on and keep on and keep on coming.” A deceptively even dozen, this collection includes Kiernan’s celebrated stories “Onion” and “Andromeda Among the Stones,” as well as a number of more obscure pieces. Though Kiernan was recently praised as “the new Lovecraft,” these stories stand as testimony that she will never be merely the “new” anyone, that hers is a unique and demanding voice entirely unlike any other. Table of Contents:
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 Dry Salvages  |
Dry SalvagesAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Three centuries in the future, though much of Earth has been crippled by war, pollution, and catastrophic climatic change, man has at last traveled to the stars and even found evidence of at least one extraterrestrial civilization. In a bleak and frozen Paris, at the dawn of the 22nd Century, an old woman is forced to confront the consequences of her part in these discoveries and the ghosts that have haunted her for almost fifty years. The last surviving member of the crew of the starship Montelius, exopaleontologist Dr. Audrey Cather struggles to remember what she’s spent so long trying to forget — the nightmare she once faced almost ninety trillion miles from Earth. |
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 Murder of Angels  |
Murder of AngelsAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Ten years ago, Niki Ky and Daria Parker saw something unspeakable in an old house in Birmingham, Alabama. Daria has denied it, escaping into a frantic music career and various addictions. But Niki has not had so many distractions. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she’s lost years in a haze of therapy and anti-psychotics. But now, Niki’s dead lover, Spyder Baxter, is calling to her from another world — an alien, impossible place where Niki is known as a Hierophant, a feared prophesied sorceress who can open a portal between worlds. And Daria will finally have to face what really happened ten years ago, if she’s to help Niki save a world . . . or destroy it. |
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 Low Red Moon  |
Low Red MoonAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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 Low Red Moon  |
Low Red Moon (A Chance and Deacon Novel #2)Author: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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 Low Red Moon  |
Low Red MoonAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Several years after the events in Threshold, Chance and Deacon have married. They’re looking ahead to the future, trying to put the past behind them. But new nightmares await them as a woman with a need for violence enters their lives. And something even worse has followed her. . . . |
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 The Five of Cups  |
The Five of CupsAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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The Five of Cups was lauded by numerous established horror authors, landed Kiernan her first agent, was the subject of a 1996 Writer’s Digest interview, and was even sold, but never published. Why? As the author says, “It’s a long story.” The Five of Cups attempts to blend the two dominant subgenres of the contemporary vampire tale, crossing the historical Gothic with the gritty, urban realism of “splatterpunk.” Grounded in the squalor of street-life in Atlanta in the early 1990s, but with an epic scope that encompasses the Irish famine of 1847, a yellow-fever epidemic in 1853 New Orleans, and the Union assault on Atlanta in 1864, Kiernan describes the novel as an “overly-ambitious jumble of competing ideas and subplots, trying to unite vampirism, the grail myth, the tarot, T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and the Arthuriad into a single, coherent storyline.” |
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 In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers  |
In the Garden of Poisonous FlowersAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Late one night, on a lonely south Georgia highway, a very strange car picks up an even stranger hitchhiker and the fates of all concerned become inextricably intertwined. Meet Dancy Flammarion, an orphaned albino girl who talks to angels and is intent on ridding the world of monsters. But what happens when one of the monsters decides to use her for his own dark ends? In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers is award-winning fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan’s first-ever novella, giving us a glimpse into the life of Dancy Flammarion shortly before her appearance in Kiernan’s critically-acclaimed second novel, Threshold. This gritty yet decadent story of ghouls, corruption, and talking bears, draws us deeply into a world of madness and betrayal, forbidden appetites and deadly intrigue, and the light that shines from the most unlikely of heroes. Note:The Limited and Lettered editions will also include “On the Road to Jefferson,” a previously unpublished chapbook available only with the novella, with cover art by Caitlin R. Kiernan. |
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 From Weird and Distant Shores  |
From Weird and Distant ShoresAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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From Weird and Distant Shores: This collection of thirteen short stories by the award-winning author of Silk and Tales of Pain and Wonder establishes Caitlin R. Kiernan as one of today’s most versatile fantasists. Spanning and transcending the fields of fantasy, dark fantasy, and science fiction, these stories include some of Kiernan’s early and hard-to-find work, and explore the limits of that ubiquitous bane of contemporary fantasy and science fiction, the “theme” and “shared-world” anthology. In the words of Douglas E. Winter: “Caitlin Kiernan’s stories, even when appearing in theme anthologies, fill a space that is genuinely hers thematically and stylistically. Rarely do her texts offer the punch line ending of a campfire tale, or even a tidy denouement. Instead they present a fine mingling of attitude and atmosphere, expressed with delightful idiosyncrasy . . .” Including such critically-acclaimed stories as “Emptiness Spoke Eloquent” (selected for The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror) and “Persephone,” as well as Kiernan’s first ever collaboration with Poppy Z. Brite, From Weird and Distant Shores is a nightmare tour de force you won’t easily forget. Table of Contents:
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 Wrong Things  |
Wrong ThingsAuthor: Brite, Poppy Z. and Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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This collection contains “Onion” by Caitlin R. Kiernan, the 2001 IHG Award winner Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in Short Form. This short collaborative collection contains an original novella by Caitlin R. Kiernan, an original novella by Poppy Z. Brite, and a brand-new collaborative story by Caitlin and Poppy set in Poppy’s fictional stomping grounds of Missing Mile, North Carolina. Wrong Things also features an exclusive afterword by Caitlin and 10 full-page interior illustrations by Richard Kirk. Table of Contents:
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 Threshold  |
ThresholdAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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 Threshold  |
ThresholdAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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The 2002 IHG Award winner Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a Novel. Chance Matthews is drawn into a battle between angels and monsters because of something in her possession — a fossil of a creature that couldn’t possibly have ever existed. But it did. And still does. |
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 Tales of Pain and Wonder  |
Tales of Pain and WonderAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Tales of Pain and WonderAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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 Tales of Pain and Wonder  |
Tales of Pain and WonderAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Included in this collection are 21 short stories by the award willing author of Silk. Her writing is unique, thought provoking, and leads you to places that you fear, yet find fascinating. Table of Contents:
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 Candles for Elizabeth  |
Candles for ElizabethAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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A collection of three horror stories. Table of Contents:
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 Silk  |
SilkAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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 Silk  |
SilkAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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 Silk  |
SilkAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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The 1998 IHG Award winner Recognizing Outstanding Achievement in a First Novel. (tie) They are twentysomething misfits . . . society’s castoffs . . . urban strays looking for thrill. Something cheap, anything to get them through the night. Only their music is different. Sleepwalking on caffeine, nicotine, and drugs, they wait out the dawn in death-rock clubs and shadowy back alleys.Into their midst comes the enigmatic Spyder. A patron saint of the aliented and lost, she invites them into her mesmerizing world of ritual and ceremony, blood and fire . . . a realm of vengeful gods, of exiled spirits harboring the dark secrets of Hell — and the darker secrets of Heaven. Is she their guardian angel, forcing them to face their greatest fears even as she battles to save their ravaged souls? Or a much more terrifying force sent not to redeem but to destroy? Somewhere between sanity and madness lies the shocking, vivid imagination of this extraordinary new writer. A novel unlike anything you have ever read, Silk will change the texture of modern horror forever. |
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Non-Fiction books by Caitlin R. Kiernan
 Trilobite  |
Trilobite: The Writing of ThresholdAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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This chapbook contains rare glimpses into Caitlin R. Kiernan’s new novel, Threshold. Inside you’ll find alternate openings, deleted chapters, nonfiction related to the novel, and short stories about the same characters, most of it unpublished. |
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Other Fiction books by Caitlin R. Kiernan
 Frog Toes and Tentacles |
Frog Toes and TentaclesAuthor: Kiernan, Caitlin R. |
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Caitlin R. Kiernan dropped a surprise book into our schedule this year, a small form hardcover containing all-original erotica. Given its subject matter and format, Frog Toes and Tentacles is unlikely to be reprinted — ever — so get your order in early. Frog Toes and Tentacles will be approximately 120 pages, consisting of eight original vignettes, each with a black-and-white illustration by Vince Locke. The Limited Edition will contain an extra vignette not available anywhere else. Table of Contents:
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Anthologies with Caitlin R. Kiernan
 Thrillers 2  |
Thrillers 2Editor: Morrish, Robert |
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This volume marks the long-overdue return of a dark fiction series that debuted in 1993. After a fourteen year hiatus, Thrillers is revived with a star-studded second volume. Within these pages, you’ll find terror, suspense, and mystery that range from quietly menacing to shockingly graphic, wildly fantastic to grimly realistic. It’s all here, with one universal ingredient: a well-told story. The formula for the Thrillers series is deceptively simple: we invite four of the genre’s most popular authors to each contribute 20,000 words of original, never-before-been-published fiction. We add insightful Afterwords by each author, along with striking illustrations by a brilliant artist. The end result is a wonderful showcase for the finest of today’s short fiction. Table of Contents:
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Summary:
Title List:
1. Silk
2. Candles for Elizabeth
3. Tales of Pain and Wonder
4. Threshold
5. Wrong Things
6. From Weird and Distant Shores
7. In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers
8. Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold
9. The Five of Cups
10. Low Red Moon
11. Murder of Angels
12. Frog Toes and Tentacles
13. Dry Salvages
14. To Charles Fort, with Love
15. Alabaster
16. Daughter Of Hounds
17. Tales from the Woeful Platypus
18. Beowulf
Title List: Collections and Anthologies
1. Candles for Elizabeth
2. Tales of Pain and Wonder
3. Wrong Things
4. From Weird and Distant Shores
5. In the Garden of Poisonous Flowers
6. Frog Toes and Tentacles
7. To Charles Fort, with Love
8. Alabaster
9. Tales from the Woeful Platypus
10. Thrillers 2
Title List: Non-Fiction
1. Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold
Weblinks List:
Salmagundi: The Fiction of Caitlin R. Kiernan
Mericale, Hughes, Scheheraz’Odd and Touchshriek, Inc.
Low Red Moon Journal — Appears to be in archive now.
