By Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard
ISBN-10: 1596066792
ISBN-13: 9781596066793
It starts with a letter from a prisoner…
As he makes an attempt to rebuild his lifestyles in rural Oregon after a sad twist of fate, Malcolm Mays unearths himself corresponding with Dusha Chuchonnyhoof, a mysterious entity who claims to be the landlord of Malcolm's residence, jailed unjustly for 117 years. The prisoner calls for that Malcolm practice a gory, bewildering activity for him. because the clock ticks towards Dusha's unencumber, Malcolm needs to try to discover no matter if he's helping a assassin or an blameless. the top of the Sentence combines Kalapuya, Welsh, Scottish and Norse mythology, with a gloomy imagined background of the hidden corners of the yank West.
Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard have cast a fairytale of ghosts and guilt, literary horror mixed with the visuals of Jean Cocteau, failed executions, shapeshifting goblins, and magical blacksmithery. In Chuchonnyhoof, they've created a brand new form of Beast, longing, centuries later, for good looks.
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