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Set includes The Hollow Gods and The Echoed Realm with custom hand-sprayed edges by Custom Sprayed Edges.
***Stray Feathers: Extras from The Chaos CycleΒ is available as an add-on. The book includes seven spicy short stories from the duology.
*All orders of the special edition hardback bundle come with a free 4×6″ postcard version of “The Spade” poster (see product image gallery).
The special edition hardbacks comes with illustrated dust jackets by Monika Palosz, featured in the product image.
The Hollow Gods (The Chaos Cycle #1)
Black Hollow is a town with a dark secret.
For centuries, residents have foretold the return of the Dreamwalkerβan ominous figure from local folklore said to lure young women into the woods and possess them. Yet the boundary between fact and fable is blurred by a troubling statistic: occasionally, women do go missing. And after they return, they almost always end up dead.
When Kai wakes up next to the lifeless body of a recently missing girl, his memory blank, he struggles to clear his already threadbare conscience.
Miya, a floundering university student, experiences signs that she may be the Dreamwalkerβs next victim. Can she trust Kai as their paths collide, or does he herald her demise?
And after losing a young patient, crestfallen oncologist, Mason, embarks on a quest to debunk the townβs superstitions, only to find his sanity tested.
A maelstrom of ancient grudges, forgotten traumas, and deadly secrets loom in the foggy forests of Black Hollow. Can three unlikely heroes put aside their fears and unite to confront a centuries-old evil? Will they uncover the truth behind the fable, or will the cycle repeat?
The Echoed Realm (The Chaos Cycle #2)
Miyaβs world ended in Black Hollow.
Itβs been three years since the Dreamwalker upended her life and left her with a heavy burden. A fledgling to the ethereal realm, Miya stumbles into the nightmares of those haunted by spectres. Little does she know, one of them is coming for her, clutching a dark secret abreast.
Kai has found a new purpose with his companion, but the price is his freedom. Bound and beholden to Miya, he struggles to adjust to his new role as her vanguard.
Meanwhile, Mason discovers he may be a pawn trapped in a web of schemes. Was his time in Black Hollow an accident, or was it only the beginning of some greater machination?
As Black Hollowβs bloody stain spreads beyond its wooded borders, Miya fights to evade a past she barely understands. The Dreamwalkerβs legacy is a vise grip, and it isnβt letting go. Primordial horrors draw near, fables come alive, and long-buried histories rise from the grave, ready to hunt.
Sharpen your claws and bloody your teeth. Thereβs fear to be sown.
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Praise for The Hollow Gods
Vrana’s dark, folklore-infused debut, the first of a duology, introduces readers to the residents of Black Hollow, who hold their daughters close and their twisted secrets closer…Vrana crafts a unique local mythology and draws from existing lore to create a sense of creeping dread. Vrana is off to a strong start with this solid, suspenseful tale.
β Publisher’s Weekly
A. J. Vrana’s debut “The Hollow Gods” is an exciting contemporary horror-fantasy that shines when it declines to play frights, which are easy, and instead explores dread, collective and generational grief, trauma, and historical responsibility…The fragmented, surgically precise narrative builds from the utterly, painfully ordinary to the absurd and fantastic.
Praise for The Echoed Realm
Compulsively readable, with complicated characters and expansive world-building, this is an epic, macabre folktale for a new generation. Vranaβs lyrical writing is a mix of poetry, chaos, violence, and energy, blending to create a wild and wonderful potion, and I canβt wait to read more from this rich new voice in contemporary fantasy.
β Kim Smejkal, author of INK IN THE BLOOD and CURSE OF THE DIVINE
βWhat at first seems a familiar battle of good vs. evil is cleverly turned on its head as Vrana pulls readers down the rabbit hole into her strange, folkloric world.β
β Publisherβs Weekly
“The Echoed Realm pulls no punches and offers a masterfully crafted supernatural horror thatβs not afraid to face the hard truths and imagine a different kind of world.
βEverything about this book has a dark and spellbinding edgeβ¦an emerging threat in your peripheral vision, a creeping dread. Horror, supernatural, and fantasy push the threads of realism to its very edges.β
β The Coy Caterpillar Reads Book Reviews