Sarah Monette – författare

Kyle Murchison Booth is the unlikeliest of characters to gain a cultfollowing, yet he has. Eccentric, socially awkward Booth is an introvertedmuseum archivist, descended from a most unusual family, who frequently findshimself in the midst of the most unsettling supernatural experiences and strangenecromantic mysteries. A gentleman and a scholar, the unwilling hero perseveredthrough The Bone Key, a series of interconnected short stories, to winreaders' hearts (and possibly their souls). This new edition, with a "puzzle" cover and a new introduction by one ofBooth's "successors" at the Samuel Mather Parrington Museum, will delightcurrent fans and allow even more to discover its dark charms.

This is the first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette's best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens of masters and mistresses of the genre. She is a poet of the awkward and the uncertain, exalter of the outcast, the outre, and the downright weird. There is nothing else quite like Sarah Monette's fiction".

Kyle Murchison Booth, archivist at the Parrington Museum, has heard of Thirdhop Scarp. Everyone has. The house has been notorious ever since the night that homeowner J.A. Cathcart murdered his entire family, and was found cupping the heart of his eldest daughter in his hands as tenderly as he would a wounded bird.It is not the first time the house has experienced unsettling events. And it will not be the last.Now the new owner of Thirdhop Scarp, one Marcus Oleander, is gathering an esoteric order at the house, including Miss Griselda Parrington, daughter of the museum's founder. The museum director demands that Mr Booth discredit Oleander’s occult teachings and end his influence over the credulous Miss Parrington. Reluctantly, Mr Booth joins the weekend séance.In the beautiful but eerie surrounds of the house and gardens, Mr Booth is drawn into an investigation that spans years – and reveals the house to be much, much more than it seems…