Low Red Moon

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Penguin, Aug 7, 2007 - Fiction - 384 pages
Chance Silvey grew up in her grandparents’ house on the side of Red Mountain, high above the urban sprawl of Birmingham, Alabama. Now married, with a baby on the way, she wants to move on and leave the house—and the tragic history of her family—in the past.
 
But her future is already tainted. Chance is hallucinating, seeing blood everywhere, and is afraid to uncover what it means. Her husband, Deacon, a gifted psychic, fears being drawn into a police investigation after having a vision of a serial killer’s brutality. And it all leads to a woman with a thirst for violence, hiding from something that haunts her day and night.
 
Something even more terrible than herself…
 

Contents

Deacon
9
Deep Time
29
Haunted
54
Gyre and Gimble
80
The Circle and The Line
106
As I Have Heard from Hell
130
Forests of the Night
156
Proverbs of Hell
179
In Caverns of the Grave
202
The Pool of Tears
228
The Hounds of Cain
261
Lullaby
263
Stations of the Cross
290
At the Rivers Edge
322
Mother Hydra
344
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About the author (2007)

Caitlin R. Kiernan is the author of nine novels, including Silk, Threshold, Low Red Moon, Murder of Angels, Daughter of Hounds, and The Red Tree. Her award-winning short fiction has been collected in six volumes, including Tales of Pain and Wonder; To Charles Fort, With Love; Alabaster; and, most recently, A is for Alien. She has also published two volumes of erotica, Frog Toes and Tentacles and Tales from the Woeful Platypus. Trained as a vertebrate paleontologist, she currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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