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The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX.
Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again.
Now, as part of his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book lives aboard the Christabel, a 19th century freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a massive forest of mangrove trees has grown up through the deck of the ship, creating a startlingly beautiful enigma Book calls the Floating Forest. As a powerful storm churns through the Gulf, he intends to sleep on board as usual.
But when he arrives at the dock, he's stunned to find Ruby there waiting for him. And she's not alone. With her are a mysterious woman and her infant child, asking Book to hide them safely aboard the Christabel while they're on the run. Only it isn't the police who are after them, it's a coven of witches the woman, Mae, has fled, stealing away the helpless infant for whom the coven had hideous plans…or so Mae claims.
It's lunacy and Book wants nothing to do with it. But after the way he and Ruby ended things, and the unspoken pain between them, he can't refuse. Yet even as he brings them out to the ruined ship and its floating forest, there are shadowed figures looming back in Galveston, waiting out the storm. And despite the worsening wind and rain, the night birds are flying, scouring the coastline for their prey.
Genre: Horror
Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again.
Now, as part of his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book lives aboard the Christabel, a 19th century freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a massive forest of mangrove trees has grown up through the deck of the ship, creating a startlingly beautiful enigma Book calls the Floating Forest. As a powerful storm churns through the Gulf, he intends to sleep on board as usual.
But when he arrives at the dock, he's stunned to find Ruby there waiting for him. And she's not alone. With her are a mysterious woman and her infant child, asking Book to hide them safely aboard the Christabel while they're on the run. Only it isn't the police who are after them, it's a coven of witches the woman, Mae, has fled, stealing away the helpless infant for whom the coven had hideous plans…or so Mae claims.
It's lunacy and Book wants nothing to do with it. But after the way he and Ruby ended things, and the unspoken pain between them, he can't refuse. Yet even as he brings them out to the ruined ship and its floating forest, there are shadowed figures looming back in Galveston, waiting out the storm. And despite the worsening wind and rain, the night birds are flying, scouring the coastline for their prey.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"Christopher Golden's novels are always an immersive experience, building tension and terror with every chapter. Christopher takes everything up a notch with The Night Birds, plunging me into a page-turning nightmare full of eerie characters, dreadful twists, and visceral horror in one of the most haunting settings I've yet to experience." - Brom
"Consider Christopher Golden our unholy Noah and The Night Birds is his dark ark, carrying nothing but nightmares. The derelict ship at the heart of this unnerving novel may be shipwrecked, but the Christabel has set its course across my dreams night after night ever since I finished reading it. A true voyage into dread." - Clay McLeod Chapman
"The Night Birds is a uniquely terrifying slice of witchy horror that will surprise and delight horror fans who think they've read it all. Visceral, dark, pedal-to-the-metal action makes Golden's newest a ride that readers won't soon forget." - Philip Fracassi
"A magnificently atmospheric, dread-soaked page-turner. Terrifying and entertaining. Pure nightmare fuel." - Rachel Harrison
"No one combines action and horror better than Christopher Golden. In The Night Birds, Golden throws everything he's got at his isolated heroes, the only thing standing between mankind and ancient evil. Bring a tank of oxygen, because once the pages start turning, you'll be gasping for breath." - Alma Katsu
"There's an inky black wellspring of utter darkness rooted at the center of Christopher Golden's remarkably skin-crawling novel, The Night Birds-a horrible blight that leaches into and pollutes the haunted heart of each character confined within pages soaked with the aching torment of despair. Atmospheric, deeply unsettling, and irresistibly captivating, The Night Birds is a masterful and unforgettable, tautly written supernatural thriller from a literary titan." - Eric LaRocca
"The Night Birds restores witches to their rightful place as grim, bloodthirsty queens of the horror genre-and cements Golden's already immensely impressive reputation as king of the horror-thriller writers. This is an engrossing, fast-moving, and richly imagined book with an unforgettable setting and lore. You won't be able to put it down!" - Ally Wilkes
"Consider Christopher Golden our unholy Noah and The Night Birds is his dark ark, carrying nothing but nightmares. The derelict ship at the heart of this unnerving novel may be shipwrecked, but the Christabel has set its course across my dreams night after night ever since I finished reading it. A true voyage into dread." - Clay McLeod Chapman
"The Night Birds is a uniquely terrifying slice of witchy horror that will surprise and delight horror fans who think they've read it all. Visceral, dark, pedal-to-the-metal action makes Golden's newest a ride that readers won't soon forget." - Philip Fracassi
"A magnificently atmospheric, dread-soaked page-turner. Terrifying and entertaining. Pure nightmare fuel." - Rachel Harrison
"No one combines action and horror better than Christopher Golden. In The Night Birds, Golden throws everything he's got at his isolated heroes, the only thing standing between mankind and ancient evil. Bring a tank of oxygen, because once the pages start turning, you'll be gasping for breath." - Alma Katsu
"There's an inky black wellspring of utter darkness rooted at the center of Christopher Golden's remarkably skin-crawling novel, The Night Birds-a horrible blight that leaches into and pollutes the haunted heart of each character confined within pages soaked with the aching torment of despair. Atmospheric, deeply unsettling, and irresistibly captivating, The Night Birds is a masterful and unforgettable, tautly written supernatural thriller from a literary titan." - Eric LaRocca
"The Night Birds restores witches to their rightful place as grim, bloodthirsty queens of the horror genre-and cements Golden's already immensely impressive reputation as king of the horror-thriller writers. This is an engrossing, fast-moving, and richly imagined book with an unforgettable setting and lore. You won't be able to put it down!" - Ally Wilkes
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