"A hallucinatory vampire noir meets Love Lies Bleeding, The Flayed Man is a lyrical, inventive horror novel that is emotionally stirring and authentic. This one will stick with you." —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts
A complex mother-daughter relationship is taken to a new level in this fresh and propulsive novel of family curses, blood-thirsty ghouls, and budding romance set against the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas.
Ellis Karsten spends nights working triage in the ER and days having the same conversation with her mom. The early onset dementia is exhausting, but the real challenge is their curse—Ellis’s family must feed daily on blood, or risk becoming mindless, skinless killing machines. When Ellis’s uncle, who supplies their blood, vanishes, she takes it upon herself to find a new source, aided by a prickly paramedic who’s equal parts unpredictable and intoxicating. But as Ellis fights to balance her bloodthirsty nature with a new relationship, her mom’s impossible demands transform into panicked warnings that a fabled monster, The Flayed Man, is stalking them.
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