Sarafina

Philip Fracassi is the Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award-nominated author of the novels A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, Boys in the Valley, and The Third Rule of Time Travel, as well as the award-winning story collections Behold the Void, Beneath a Pale Sky, and No One Is Safe! Philip’s stories have been published in numerous languages and in many magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, and Southwest Review. Philip lives in Los Angeles. You can visit his website at www.pfracassi.com.

“A fairytale like no other, Fracassi has crafted a nightmarish story weaving together threads of mythology, history, fantasy, and horror that explores the bonds of brotherhood through a terrifying landscape of war, religion, and the supernatural.” —Scream Magazine “Sarafina is the literary equivalent of a cannonball that’ll leave you bruised, bloody, and broken. A dark and unsettling novel that uses spiritual mythology, and the war America fought against itself, as the backdrop for a story that will twist your stomach and shred your nerves.” —Tyler Jones, author of Night of the Long Knives“Philip Fracassi’s Sarafina is a shape-shifting fever dream: part historical epic, part coming of age—but its horrors are one-hundred-proof: pure, potent, and wholly terrifying.” —Nick Cutter, author of Little HeavenPrevious Praise for Boys in the Valley“Old-school horror.” —Stephen King“The most frightening novel of the year.” —Esquire“A tale that will truly frighten, unnerve, and touch readers' hearts…a beautiful novel that should be―will likely be―remembered as one of the best of the young decade.” —Cemetery Dance Online“Fracassi...brings a depth of understanding to his monsters, human and otherwise.” —The Guardian“The prose is precise, the terror’s exquisite, and Fracassi’s got his hand on the chisel going into your chest.” —Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is a Chainsaw“A delightful tapestry of evil, horror, fantasy, body horror, historical fiction and witchcraft.” —CHARS HORROR CORNER"Sarafina reads like a blood-tinged folk tale whispered sitting around a crackling fire...steeped in dread and inevitability.” —THE FANDOMENTALS“Transcends the horror of war into something eternal which there is no escaping from. Sarafina is another meaningful entry into what is developing into the strongest back catalogues in modern horror fiction.” —HORROR DNA“An amplified version of one of the Brothers Grimm Fairytales…loved it.” —FANFIADDICT“A stunningly haunting historical horror novel.” —Library Journal