COMING APRIL 2027
CLASH Books (US) / Black Crow Books (UK)
Paperback, eBook, Audiobook
GOTHIC: THE END
A NOVEL
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SUMMARY:
USA Today bestselling author and Bram Stoker nominee, Philip Fracassi, returns to the world of GOTHIC in this brutal sequel to a cult favorite, in which world-famous author Kelly (K.C.) Cooper acquires an antique desk that conjures hell on and off the page.
After a heart-wrenching divorce, author Kelly Cooper and her two children are the proud owners of a new home in New York's Hudson Valley. While furnishing the house, Kelly comes across a weathered, ancient desk that, despite its rundown appearance, she knows she cannot live without.
But there's a sliver of darkness inside Kelly--a part of herself she's tried to repress over the years, to bury deep within her subconscious. Soon, however, the malevolent force of the desk brings that darkness to the surface, poisoning and infesting Kelly's world, her mind, her heart. And when the true story of the desk is revealed--a blood-soaked history that reaches back centuries--it is Kelly, and those she loves, who will either pay the price for its heritage, or finish things once and for all.
One of the most exciting names in horror, Philip Fracassi will take readers through the dizzying heights and deadly pitfalls of artistic creation, warped and driven by the malicious power of an ancient evil. In the world of GOTHIC, no one can escape the hand they're dealt.
Every story, one way or another, must have an end.
PRAISE for gothic:
“Masterful storytelling...with palpable fear leaping off the page.” – LIBRARY JOURNAL (Starred review)
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“Will keep readers glued to their seats in anticipation of what lies ahead.” – BOOKLIST
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“As pulpy as it is subversive, as epic as it is intimate, Philip Fracassi's GOTHIC is a Pandora's box (or desk) jam-packed with ghoulish delights. Somehow, Fracassi has given us a fully contemporary, unpredictable novel that also feels like the Paperback from Hell I was always looking for in the used stacks." – NAT CASSIDY, author of When the Wolf Comes Home
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“A literary treat that delivers what it promises to horror fans.” - FANGORIA
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"A dark and delirious journey into the unraveling of a mind, Gothic is the accursed 21st century bastard child of the 70s horror boom and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. Deadly, compelling, and pulls no punches." - BRIAN EVENSON
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"GOTHIC is the literary equivalent of the abyss gazing right back at you from the hellish depths of its pages. Don't lean in too close, lest you fall into this nightmarish novel and never find your way out again." - CLAY McLEOD CHAPMAN, author of Ghost Eaters
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"A diabolical novel! Fracassi pens this one with furious, devilish glee. Readers--and writers--of horror fiction will love it." – RONALD MALFI, author of Come With Me
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"Stylish, atmospheric, and chilling, GOTHIC is an affectionate ode to the horror greats, and an effective reminder that Philip Fracassi is destined to become one of them. One of my favorite reads of the year so far."- KEALAN PATRICK BURKE, author of Kin and Sour Candy
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"Not since The Shining has the descent of a writer into madness been so masterfully rendered on the page.” – ROSS JEFFERY, Bram Stoker-nominated author of Tome
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“A high creep factor chiller with a sinister edge that had me reading well past my bedtime. Frightening and fun, and deliciously original!" — JAMES A. MOORE, author of the Blood Red trilogy and Cherry Hill.
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“Fracassi takes the familiar traps—love, obsession, power—and gives them new teeth. It’s dark fun twisted tightly around a story of human frailty...He’s doing for the desk what King did for the car.” – Jeff Terry, THE JEFF WORD
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"Downright chilling. I loved every word. Fracassi is coming into his own and I'm ready to follow him on any journey he takes." - GLENN ROLFE, author of August’s Eyes.
(A limited edition of this book was released by Earthling Publications in November, 2022)