Author: John Palisano

New gothic horror from Bram Stoker Award winning author, and recent past President of the Horror Writers Association, John Palisano.

Ava must fight an entity locked in on taking out the crew of the Eden, a moon-sized cemetery in space, as it brings back the souls of the dead buried aboard. One such soul is Ava's lost love, Roland.

The spirits of the interred on the Eden haunt those aboard, including a visiting musician is tasked with writing a new song for the dead. Her Requiem calls a cosmic entity that illuminates their darkest fears and secrets. One by one, they're driven mad. Ava fights her grief and must rise up before they're lost and the entity reaches Earth.

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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 05/13/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9781787589544

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/24/2025

About the Author
John Palisano is the author of 'Dust of the Dead', 'Ghost Heart', 'Nerves', and 'Night of 1,000 Beasts'. His novellas include 'Placerita', 'Glass House' and 'Starlight Drive: Four Halloween Tales'. His first short fiction collection 'All that Withers' celebrates over a decade of short story highlights.

Palisano won the Bram Stoker Award(c) in short fiction for 'Happy Joe's Rest Stop' and Colorado's Yog Soggoth award. His short stories have appeared in Weird Tales, Cemetery Dance, PS Publishing, Independent Legions, Space & Time, Dim Shores, Kelp Journal, Monstrous Books, DarkFuse, Crystal Lake, Terror Tales, Lovecraft eZine, Horror Library, Bizarro Pulp, Written Backwards, Dark Continents, Big Time Books, McFarland Press, Darkscribe, Dark House, Vincere Press and many more.

Non-fiction pieces have appeared in Blumhouse Online, Fangoria, and Dark Discoveries magazines and he's been quoted in Vanity Fair, The Writer, and the Los Angeles Times. He's a recent past President of the Horror Writers Association.