Kiste is a master of ripping up much loved tropes and classic cliches and making something really new out of them." - S.J. "There's something really magical about Kiste's prose that really pulls you in from the first sentence. (Kiste's) first book from a major publishing house brings her award-winning, feminism-fueled horror to more readers." - Library Journal
An ode to forgotten women everywhere, a tale where every detail satisfyingly matters as readers rush to the emotional conclusion. "This fast-paced and fun adventure honors its beloved source material and manages to insert something unique into the conversation. "This book will sink its teeth into you." - Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw "Fans of Gothic horror with a literary twist will be delighted." - Booklist Rochester, and the two women who survived them, Bertha and Lucy, who are now undead immortals residing in Los Angeles in 1967 when Dracula and Rochester make a shocking return in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.Ĭombining elements of historical and gothic fiction with a modern perspective, in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion, Reluctant Immortals is the lyrical and harrowing journey of two women from classic literature as they bravely claim their own destiny in a man's world.
Reluctant Immortals is a historical horror novel that looks at two men of classic literature, Dracula and Mr. Rochester's attic-bound wife in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre-as they band together to combat the toxic men bent on destroying their lives, set against the backdrop of the Summer of Love, Haight-Ashbury, 1967. From Titan Books The audiobook narrated by Carlotta Brentan available nowįrom Simon and Schuster Audio For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature-from Lucy Westenra, a victim of Stoker's Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr.
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