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One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin.A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret.The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer—deeply closeted and pathologically repressed—begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her. As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her—and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can’t answer but can’t get out of her mind.Do you want it?More than anything?Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:ManhuntCuckoo

"By far the best book I've read this year.” —Roxane Gay #1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture) • A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library Journal, Paste, and CrimeReads) • A Top 10 Horror Debuts of 2022 (Booklist) • A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Horror • A Best Book of 2022 (Tor.com) • A Best SFF Book of 2022 (Gizmodo) • A Top 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature (The New York Times Style Magazine).Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.“A modern horror masterpiece.” —Carmen Maria MachadoBeth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons."A filthy, furious delight."—The New YorkerAlso by Gretchen Felker-Martin:CuckooBlack Flame

One woman''s deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin.A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret.The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer—deeply closeted and pathologically repressed—begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her. As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her—and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can’t answer but can’t get out of her mind.Do you want it?More than anything?Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:ManhuntCuckooAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

"By far the best book I''ve read this year.” —Roxane Gay #1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture) • A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library Journal, Paste, and CrimeReads) • A Top 10 Horror Debuts of 2022 (Booklist) • A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Horror • A Best Book of 2022 (Tor.com) • A Best SFF Book of 2022 (Gizmodo) • A Top 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature (The New York Times Style Magazine).Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.“A modern horror masterpiece.” —Carmen Maria MachadoBeth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they''ll never face the same fate.Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren''t safe.After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons."A filthy, furious delight."—The New YorkerAlso by Gretchen Felker-Martin:CuckooBlack FlameAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Locus Award Finalist!The USA Today bestselling novel from Gretchen Felker-Martin, where a group of teens must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell. "A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It''s flat-out mesmerizing."—Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror MovieSomething evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin.In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survived—but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person.Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it''s too late.The fate of the world depends on it."With Cuckoo, Felker-Martin appoints herself the new High Priestess of splatter."—Tony Tulathimutte, author of National Book Award finalist RejectionAlso by Gretchen Felker-Martin:ManhuntBlack FlameAt the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

STARRED Reviews in Library Journal and Booklist!A Most-Anticipated Title in CrimeReads, BookRiot, Tor.com, Electric Lit, and more.Featured in Autostraddle, Apartment Therapy, Goodreads, and more.Gretchen Felker-Martin''s Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and men on a grotesque journey of survival.“A modern horror masterpiece.” —Carmen Maria Machado, bestselling author of In the Dream House“Keeps up a relentless velocity while just being plain fun as hell.”—Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyBeth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they''ll never face the same fate.Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren''t safe.After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics—all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.