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A fusion of travel literature and cultural criticism investigating the dark history of the US and exploring how past horrors – from witch trials to slavery and genocide – continue to haunt the national consciousness. Haunted States is a unique guidebook that explores the dark, often horrifying, history of the US. Based on the author’s journey across the United States in summer 2022, it explores locations connected to Gothic fiction and film, tracking the relationship between the American landscapes and the various forms of fictional horror the nation has produced over the centuries.

Everyone got married in the 1950s, then started to produce the soon-to-be-famous baby boom. For Americans who had survived the Great Depression and World War II, prosperous married life was a triumph. The unwed were objects of pity, scorn, even suspicion. Women over twenty-three were consider old maids. But Eva Eldridge— who’d left the farm for a job in a wartime shipyard where she made a hasty and disastrous marriage—finds herself left out. Now in her thirties and marginally employed, she is the perfect target for handsome Vick, who promises everything.

When her great-aunt dies, leaving The Yarn Barn in need of new management, Lucy Hawkins jumps at the opportunity to quit her stressful sales job. She moves to the quaint tourist town of Willow Vale, ready for a fresh start when she takes over the business. While introducing herself to her new neighbors, she meets Zeke, the owner of the occult shop next door. Friendly yet reserved, Zeke piques her interest, but he turns down her suggestion of a date.

Five years after being turned into what she is now, as she watches those closest to her find their human mates that she one day hopes she will too, a dreadful mistake happens. Whilst escaping her sires deranged, vengeful brother up high in the vampire realm—she falls. Falling to the ground as her stunning angelic like white wings fail her, she lands at the feet of a blonde, beautiful human. Who smells simply f--king delicious. Hers!

Life after her high school graduation sucks for Mads Bland—her foster mother has died, her boyfriend has broken up with her, she can’t afford community college, and it seems she’ll work in a grocery store forever. After a mysterious invitation to Usher House arrives at her door, everything changes. Mads soon learns that her real name is Madeline Usher and that she has inherited the crumbling mansion in a remote part of Georgia.

In the vast reaches of space, aboard a colossal generational ship hurtling towards a distant star, Ana, a devoted member of the caretaker team, finds herself thrust into a web of intrigue and sinister conspiracy in the riveting sci-fi novel Negative Mass. Duty and honour take centre stage as Ana battles against all odds to uncover the truth and protect the fragile balance of life aboard the vessel.