The Crimson Road

"Praise for A.G. Slatter: ""Angela plays by her own rules. She's fantastic"" Hilarie Burton-Morgan, actress and author of Grimoire Girl “A delightfully sinister fairy tale full of dark rituals, reluctant romance, and revenge served bitterly cold, The Path of Thorns is a modern classic.”  Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of For The Wolf “Slatter writes witches like none other, and her newest is a darkling feast, jewelled and blood-stained, rich with secrets and seething with unbearable power.” Cassandra Khaw, author of The Salt Grows Heavy ""Angela is simply one of the best contemporary writers of fiction, regardless of genre"" Ian Mond, Locus ""A.G. Slatter shows that her genius for the magical gothic tale is not waning... She writes complex characters, who are utterly believable in their relationships and attitudes; she creates vibrant worlds whose details show there’s so much more to them than appears on the page. And her prose is so beautiful and absorbing that 350 pages fly by, and you’re left wanting more."" Alexandra Pierce, Locus “Slatter nestles stories within stories, immersing readers in a richly imagined world, and leading them on a journey full of unexpected twists and turns.” A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling “Dark, witchy, and downright delicious.” Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces “Angela Slatter hits it out of the park again. With gorgeous prose and a heart-breaking story about family, magic, and the weight of the past, this is a darkly fantastic masterpiece that shouldn’t be missed.” Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens “Lush prose, complex, compelling characters, and an examination of the tangled webs of both the past and family roots left me flipping pages long into the night. What Slatter has crafted with The Briar Book of the Dead is nothing short of an immersive, dark magic.” Kristi DeMeester, author of Such a Pretty Smile “Angela Slatter is at her very best in this masterful blend of folkloric storytelling, family conflict and dark horror.” Juliet Marillier, author of the Sevenwaters and Blackthorn & Grim series PRAISE FOR THE PATH OF THORNS ""...a dark and engrossing fairy tale with an engaging protagonist and compelling secrets lying underneath the surface"" - Oprah Daily, Top 25 Fantasy Books of 2022 ""An absorbing, captivating tale"" - SFX ​""​I’m a huge fan of the “morally grey character seeks revenge but struggles with growing positive sentiments toward their enemy” trope, and the addition of furious ghosts driving on this mission is just… chef’s kiss!​""​ - Tor.com PRAISE FOR ALL THE MURMURING BONES A rich and satisfying novel about a young woman, born to be the last hope of a once powerful family, who resists an arranged marriage and won’t stop at murder or magic to survive in a world of abusive men and dangerous, supernatural creatures. Shifting between scenes of wonder and horror, a complex plot is gradually revealed, as well paced and gripping as a thriller. - The Guardian Stunning gothic adventure...Anyone who likes gutsy heroines, beautiful language, and well-wrought worlds won’t want to miss this. -  Publishers Weekly Starred Review This is a magnificently written, smashingly good read...Slatter’s prose is as lustrous as jet beads against black silk. Readers will savor every word. - Locus Magazine  Gorgeous, atmospheric gothic fantasy - Buzzfeed  Twists and turns and weaves Grimm-like fairytales into a dark tale that gets darker the further you read. 5* - She Reeds By The Sea A. G. Slatter is a born storyteller. Her work is as beautiful and dangerous as the best fairy tales and All the Murmuring Bones is entirely enchanting. A magical read - Alison Littlewood, author of A Cold Season   A beautiful gothic monstrosity (monstrosity being a good thing), one of those rare books you don’t just want to read but want to live inside of. - Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy Like J.R.R. Tolkien, Slatter’s taken her personal invented mythos and crafted a world around it that is at once familiar and deeply strange. Lush and chilling, eerie and exquisite, brutal and elegant… I defy anyone to stop turning pages until they’ve come to the end. - Ellen Kushner, author of The Privilege of the Sword Harrowing and beautiful, this is the grim, fairy-tale gothic you’ve been waiting for. All the Murmuring Bones is Slatter at her darkest—and finest. Don’t miss it! - Christopher Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Ararat and Red Hands All the Murmuring Bones is fairy-tale gothic at its finest and then some. Luscious, richly infused with Slatter’s gift for creating place; this is a world that invites travel along all of its dark roads and secret paths. Long after you’re done with the book, you’ll sit there drenched still in its magic, wondering how you might find your way back. - Cassandra Khaw, author of Hammers on Bone A story as gorgeously gothic as its title. This is a novel of blood and bones, of salt and silver, of an absolutely haunting richness. I was compelled from the very beginning and held rapt to the end. - Kat Howard, author of An Unkindness of Magicians Like the sea at its heart, Slatter’s haunting story is treacherous and lovely in all its dark depths. - Heather Kassner, author of The Bone Garden  Two uncanny houses, Hob’s Hallow and Blackwater, bookend Angela Slatter’s new novel like grim sentinels. Whether they are cursed or enchanted, majestic or moldering, refuge or prison, only reading to the end will tell. Meanwhile, the landscape stretching between these gothic structures abounds with corpsewights, kelpies, ghosts, rusalki, werewolves, clockwork mechanicals, and—most alarmingly—actors. And across this treacherous terrain walks Miren O’Malley, scarred, furious, and growing in power. All the Murmuring Bones is brutal and beautiful throughout, with moments of tenderness hard-won and harder-kept, and, pervading all, an atmosphere of inescapable threat like the taste of salt wind and the sound of silver bells ringing in the deep. - C. S. E. Cooney, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Bone Swans: Stories The [gothic] fantasy worlds of Angela Slatter are among the fullest, most vividly realised of our time. The primal ore of folk and fairytale runs glittering through the dark layers of their history and geology, and Slatter mines them for all they're worth. She brings them to the light cut and polished in ways that will make you gasp. In the furnace of her imagination what she produces is tantamount to a sword from out the stone. Her prose is molten metal. Hail the Once and Future Queen! - Neil Snowdon"