Cherie Priest’s Chapelwood Takes The Borden Dispatches to the South
Last year Cherie Priest kicked off her “The Borden Dispatches” series of novels with Maplecroft (pitting Lizzie Borden against a Cthulhu-like creature), and now she’s back with Chapelwood, which takes Lizzie from Massachusetts to Alabama, where she must fight evil once again and save humanity.
Chapelwood arrives September 1st from Roc Trade Paperback, and we have more details below.
Priest, who currently resides in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the author of more than a dozen books, including the steampunk pulp adventures Dreadnought, Clementine, Ganymede, and Boneshaker. Boneshaker was nominated for both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award; it was also a PNBA Award winner and winner of the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Cherie also wrote Fathom and the Eden Moore series from Tor (Macmillan), Bloodshot and Hellbent for Bantam, and three novellas published by Subterranean Press. Her short stories and nonfiction articles have appeared in such fine publications as Weird Tales, Subterranean Magazine, Publishers Weekly, The Living Dead 2, and the Thackeray T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities.
Synopsis:
Birmingham, Alabama, is infested with malevolence. Prejudice and hatred have consumed the minds and hearts of its populace. A murderer, unimaginatively named “Harry the Hacker” by the press, has been carving up citizens with a hatchet. And from the church known as Chapelwood, an unholy gospel is being spread by a sect that worships dark gods from beyond the heavens.
This darkness calls to Lizzie Borden. It is reminiscent of an evil she had dared hoped was extinguished. The parishioners of Chapelwood plan to sacrifice a young woman to summon beings never meant to share reality with humanity. An apocalypse will follow in their wake which will scorch the earth of all life.
Unless she stops it…
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