Maplecroft book - fiction

[RichardX]

I'm not sure if someone has already posted this, but here are some reviews of a fictional book relating to Lizzie. Kind of along the lines of "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter":

What if Lizzie Borden actually did kill her father and stepmother with an axe, but she had a really good reason? Lizzie and her sister, Emma, still live in Fall River, MA, ostracized despite Lizzie's acquittal years earlier. The townspeople don't know that Lizzie might be their only defense against ocean creatures who can possess their souls and change their bodies. This clever premise combines genuine horror and a legendary historical character for an entertaining read. As in the best horror, the exact nature of the threat is left a little vague, allowing the reader's imagination to fill in the details. ~Library Journal

Maplecroft is dark and lyrical, haunting and brined in blood. It is as sharp as Lizzie Borden's axe-and Borden herself is a horror heroine bar none. Cherie Priest is our new queen of darkness, folks. Time to kneel before her, lest she take our heads. ~Chuck Wendig, author of Blackbirds and The Blue Blazes.

Lizbeth "Lizzie" Andrew Borden wields her axe against Lovecraftian entities in this terrifying and powerful series launch by fan favorite Priest (the Clockwork Century series). Two years after Lizzie infamously slew her mother and stepfather, she and her consumptive, scholarly older sister, Emma, remain in their hometown of Fall River, Mass., in an isolated and modified home called Maplecroft. Lizzie spends countless hours in her basement laboratory, trying to understand what transformed the Bordens into horrifying creatures, while protecting and caring for Emma and conducting a love affair with actress Nance O'Neil. Then Emma, who poses as "Dr. E.A. Jackson" to contribute to the men-only world of science, sends a biological sample to colleague Phillip Zollicoffer at Miskatonic University, with terrible consequences. Readers will be intrigued by the weird monsters and 19th-century science, but the story is really carried by the characters' emotional dynamics, especially those between the Borden sisters. (Sept.) ~Publishers Weekly [Starred Review]

Cherie Priest has long been a favorite author of mine, but with Maplecroft she has outdone herself. Grim, impeccably written, and deliciously disturbing, it's nothing less than a Gothic masterpiece, and represents Priest at the height of her power. Easily my favorite novel of the year so far. ~ Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Turtle Boy, and Kin.

Cherie Priest is supremely gifted and Maplecroft is a remarkable novel, simultaneously beautiful and grotesque. It is at once a dark historical fantasy with roots buried deep in real-life horror and a supernatural thriller mixing Victorian drama and Lovecraftian myth. You won't be able to put it down! ~ Christopher Golden, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Snowblind.

With Maplecroft, Cherie Priest delivers her most terrifying vision yet-a genuinely scary, deliciously claustrophobic, and dreadfully captivating historical thriller with both heart and cosmic horror. A mesmerizing, absolute must-read! ~ Brian Keene, Best-selling author of The Rising and Ghoul.

Author website: http://www.cheriepriest.com/2014/09/02/ ... t-finally/

[debbiediablo]

I just might read this...my first degree was in library science (was back when it called library science) and I've always had a weakness for books like this...sounds like it's written for middle schoolers to early high school.

[augusta]

Thanks for the reviews, Richard X.

[twinsrwe]

Thanks for sharing this with us, Richard. It sounds like an interesting book.