The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitl n Kiernan is a minister of dark magic, and any collection of her work is a must-read.
--Chuck Wendig, author of Hyperion and The Shield

Caitl n Kiernan is one of the true visionaries and finest stylists in our field, and very possibly the most lyrical. Her tales enrich the imagination, and represent the literature of the dark at its most gorgeous and disturbing. This book is a treasure house of wonders and terrors, and an essential purchase for anyone who cares about the great tradition of weird fiction.
--Ramsey Campbell, author of The Parasite and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach

Kiernan's stories will submerge you in a strange world filled with the twisted, radical reflections of Giger and Lovecraft, their aesthetic skins stretched over anger, pain, queerness, and courage.
--Lara Elena Donnelly, author of the Amberlough Dossier series

Caitl n R. Kiernan is one of the most inventive, seductive, and wickedly intelligent writers working today in any genre, and this treasury puts her powers on full display. Her stories are promiscuous vampires, eager to draw their energy from folklore, space opera, crime fiction, weird tales, and the dreams of the silver screen. Whether their tone is streetwise or scholarly, archaic or futuristic, these tales share Kiernan's signature flavor of a last drink on the edge of the abyss. She is Our Lady of Elation and Melancholy. A sinister, spellbinding collection.
--Sofia Samatar, author of A Stranger in Olondria and Monster Portraits

Praise for Caitl n R. Kiernan

Caitl n Kiernan is the poet and bard of the wasted and the lost.
--Neil Gaiman, author of Norse Mythology

Caitl n R. Kiernan is an original.
--Clive Barker, author of The Books of Blood series and Hellraiser

Caitl n R. Kiernan writes like a Gothic cathedral on fire.
--Poppy Z. Brite, author of Lost Souls

Praise for The Drowning Girl

Incisive, beautiful and as perfectly crafted as a puzzle-box, The Drowning Girl took my breath away.
--Holly Black, New York Times bestselling author of Red Glove

This is a masterpiece. It deserves to be read in and out of genre for a long, long time.
--Elizabeth Bear, author of Grail

A beautifully written, startlingly original novel.
--Elizabeth Hand, author of Illyria

With The Drowning Girl, Caitl n R. Kiernan moves firmly into the new vanguard, still being formed, of our best and most artful authors of the gothic and fantastic--those capable of writing fiction of deep moral and artistic seriousness.
--Peter Straub, author of A Ghost Story

Caitl n R. Kiernan turns the ghost story inside out and transforms it.
--Brian Evanson, author of Last Days

The Drowning Girl features all those elements of Caitl n R. Kiernan's writing that readers have come to expect--a prose style of wondrous luminosity, an atmosphere of languorous melancholy, and an inexplicable mixture of aching beauty and clutching terror.
--S. T. Joshi, author of I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft

Kiernan pins out the traditional memoir on her worktable and metamorphoses it into something wholly different and achingly familiar, more alien, more difficult, more beautiful, and more true.
--Catherynne M. Valente, New York Times bestselling author of Deathless