Out Of Salem
Author(s): Hal Schrieve
Horror / Spec Fiction | Identity - Transgender | Identity - LGBTQIA+ / Queer | Young Adult
The best Teen Zombie Werewolf Witchy Faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever read -- by twenty-one-year-old debut author Hal Schrieve.
Genderqueer fourteen-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be-goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner. As Z struggles to find a way to repair the broken magical seal holding their body together, Aysel fears that her classmates will discover her status as an unregistered werewolf. When a local psychiatrist is murdered by what seems to be werewolves, the town of Salem, Oregon, becomes even more hostile to "monsters," and Z and Aysel are driven together in an attempt to survive a place where most people wish that neither of them existed.
Rarely has a first-time author created characters of such immediacy and power as Z, Aysel, Tommy (suspected fey) and Elaine (also a werewolf), or a world that parallels our own so clearly and disturbingly.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 01 March 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Hal Schrieve
- : OO