In Darkness, Shadows Breathe

by Catherine Cavendish

Overview

"[...] if there is a crown of queen of gothic horror, [Catherine Cavendish] should be wearing it." — Modern Horrors

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Carol and Nessa are strangers but not for much longer.

In a luxury apartment and in the walls of a modern hospital, the evil that was done continues to thrive. They are in the hands of an entity that knows no boundaries and crosses dimensions - bending and twisting time itself - and where danger waits in every shadow. The battle is on for their bodies and souls and the line between reality and nightmare is hard to define.
Through it all, the words of Lydia Warren Carmody haunt them. But who was she? And why have Carol and Nessa been chosen?

The answer lies deep in the darkness...

FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787585515
Publisher:	Flame Tree Publishing
Publication date:	01/19/2021
Series:	Fiction Without Frontiers
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	1,028,921
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Following a varied career in sales, advertising and career guidance, Cat is now the full-time author of supernatural, ghostly, haunted house and Gothic horror novels, novellas and short stories. She lives in Southport, England with her longsuffering husband, and a black cat who is in charge.

Editorial Reviews

"A story that creeps up and drags you in until you are almost as scared as the characters you are reading about. Magnificently, dark, eerie and all-consuming in it’s telling. A Gothic tale for a dark night, or not! Depends how easily scared you are really"

Beyond the Books

"I’m getting really close to calling the race for best British genre novelist of the 21st century (thus far) for Catherine Cavendish, and the author’s new novel In Darkness, Shadows Breathe just might be her best yet."

iHorror

"[...]if there is a crown of queen of gothic horror, [Catherine Cavendish] should be wearing it."

Modern Horrors

01/25/2021

Cavendish (The Malan Witch) breathes new life into familiar horror tropes in this spine-tingling tale of past and present colliding. Carol is admitted to the Royal and Waverley hospital with acute appendicitis. While there, she has disturbing visions of an otherworldly presence and learns that the hospital is on the site of a former asylum. She starts to fall in and out of her present time, possessed by the spirit of a 19th-century asylum patient, Lydia Warren Carmody, and pulled by her into the past. Meanwhile, Nessa, an older cancer patient, finds herself inextricably linked to both Carol and Lydia after she reads a poem that Lydia wrote. With characteristic verve, Cavendish explores the connection between the three women, offering few moments of reprieve as the suspense builds and time threatens to collapse in on itself. The story of female resilience at the heart of this well-constructed gothic tale is sure to please fans of women-driven horror.(Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"In Darkness, Shadows Breathe is a good way to start 2021, because it’s a novel centering around recovery, something the world can relate to right now. Cavendish shines in the ways she’s connected to the story, making herself vulnerable to not only her readers, but to the ghosts that haunt her."

Aiden Merchant

The writing is beautiful and an absolute pleasure to read, with the transition from modern renal ward to Victorian squalor (or reality to Otherworld) being almost tangible.

The Catbox

01/01/2021

This harrowing, time-bending, and plot-driven novel unfolds around the questions of what is real, what is imagined, and what is caused by supernatural evil. Centered on the stories of three women endangered by the same ancient demon, but told in two parts over multiple time frames, the tale unsettles. Cavendish (The Malan Witch) begins with a prologue featuring two medical professionals conducting heinous science with the help of a powerful dark being, setting the stage for the intense dread and confusion to come. Readers are firmly established in the bewildered minds of the central characters as they end up in a historically significant British hospital. Here, for certain patients, ghosts beckon and time is fluid, disorienting, and dangerous. Are these women the victims of a being set on immortality and doomed to repeat the horrors of the lives of its past vessels? Or is it all in their heads? The answer will come to readers differently as they make their way through this high-stakes, menacing tale. VERDICT A compelling, immersive, and intense time-slip horror novel with sympathetic characters that readers actively root for. The tale reads like The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle if it were written by Sarah Pinborough.

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