Ballad of the Bone Road

The ultimate ghost story, many-layered and highly original. Ballad of the Bone Road is both terrifying and irresistible.
-Juliet Marillier, author of the Sevenwaters and Blackthorn & Grim series

A new A. C. Wise book is always something to celebrate. A ghostly heartthrob, a hollow queen, a vanishing hotel room and haunted protagonists - what’s not to love? Ethereal, wild and liminal, Ballad of the Bone Road is a fabulous intersection between weird crime and the next wave of the paranormal. Not to be missed.
-Angela ‘A. G.’ Slatter. award-winning author of The Crimson Road

A breathtakingly beautiful and chilling ghost story, Ballad of the Bone Road is like nothing you’ve ever read before. In these pages, you’ll find phantoms, fae, one very glamorous hotel, and so much more. Without a doubt, A. C. Wise is one of the best literary voices of our time, which makes this book a must-read for fans of horror and dark fantasy.
-Gwendolyn Kiste, four-time Bram Stoker AwardÆ-winning author of The Haunting of Velkwood and Reluctant Immortals

A. C. Wise has created a lush and lyrical world that draws you in and devastates you. I was captivated.
-Rym Kechacha, author of To Catch a Moon

Wise infuses her worldbuilding with glitzy gilded age-esque details and builds plentiful supernatural suspense. This is eerie fun.
-Publishers Weekly

Praise for A. C. Wise

A unique vision … a universe of the undefinable fantastic, gifted by one of our finest imaginations.
-Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Light Most Hateful

A strange and singular book. Wise has crafted a story quite unlike any other and it blew my mind. One of the best books I’ve read in a long time.
-Tendai Huchu, author of The Library of the Dead

Full of fantastic queer representation and a broad range of voices within the cast of characters … Richly textured and easy to imagine.
-ScreenRant

An evocative mystery set in a richly imagined world, populated by a diverse cast of instantly intriguing characters. I loved every word of this gorgeous novella.
-Emmi Itäranta, author of The Moonday Letters

Hooked is an absolutely breathtaking accomplishment, and further proof that A.C. Wise is one of the most vital voices in fiction today. Her lush, beautiful prose draws you in and never lets you go… Be sure to put Hooked at the top of your reading list.
-Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Reluctant Immortals

Hooked will effortlessly pull readers back into Wise’s dark, seductive, and mesmerizing version of Neverland - and into the equally compelling inner world of her characters. A beautifully written and psychologically astute sequel.
-Leah Cypess, author of Thornwood and Glass Slippers

Fans of creepy updated fairy tales… should snap this up.
-Publishers Weekly

Feminist twists and creeping dread abound in this intriguing retelling of Peter Pan.
-Library Journal

Intelligent and deftly executed.
-TOR.com

This book hooked me immediately with Wendy’s voice and rage and longing… what Wise does with the Peter Pan mythos here is nothing short of astonishing.
-Sam J. Miller, Nebula Award-winning author of Blackfish City

Wendy, Darling is a daring, gothic re-envisioning of everything we think we know - and an important, vivid adventure.
-Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula award-winning, World Fantasy finalist author of Updraft

Richly imagined, surprisingly dark, and heartbreakingly beautiful.
-Marian Womack, author of The Swimmers

A dark and delightful retelling of Peter Pan. Wendy, Darling is a gorgeous achievement, and one you don’t want to miss.
-Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and Boneset & Feathers

A.C. Wise is the author of Hooked and the bestselling Wendy, Darling. She also has two short story collections published by Lethe Press, Catfish Lullaby, a novella published by Broken Eye Books (2019), and The Ghost Sequences, a short story collection published by Undertow Books (2021), which was shortlisted for a 2021 Bram Stoker Award.

Her work has won the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, as well as twice being a finalist for the Nebula Award, twice being a finalist for the Sunburst Award, and being a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. In addition to her fiction, she contributes semi-regular review columns to The Book Smugglers and Apex Magazine. Originally from Canada, she now lives in Pennsylvania, US.

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