The Sea Was a Fair Master

9 best books like The Sea Was a Fair Master (Calvin Demmer): Stirring the Sheets, Creature, The Dark Game, The Rust Maidens, I Am Not Your Final Girl, Out Behind the Barn, Dead of Winter, Fountain Dead, Skullface Boy

AuthorChad Lutzke
STIRRING THE SHEETS is the first novella I have read by author Chad Lutzke. After finishing this one in a single sitting, I am so glad I already have two additional books of his in my TBR pile to read next!

I'll admit, I've seen a lot of great reviews for various works by this author, but nothing prepared...
Creature
AuthorHunter Shea
ISBN1787580210
The monsters live inside of Kate Woodson. Chronic pain and a host of autoimmune diseases have robbed her of a normal, happy life. Her husband Andrew’s surprise of their dream Maine lake cottage for the summer is the gift of a lifetime. It’s beautiful, remote, idyllic, a place to heal. But they are...
The Dark Game
AuthorJonathan Janz
Ten writers are selected for a summer-long writing retreat with the most celebrated and reclusive author in the world. Their host is the legendary Roderick Wells. Handsome, enigmatic, and fiendishly talented, Wells promises to teach his pupils about writing, about magic, about the untapped potential...
The Rust Maidens
AuthorGwendolyn Kiste
ISBN1947654446
Something’s happening to the girls on Denton Street.

It’s the summer of 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, and Phoebe Shaw and her best friend Jacqueline have just graduated high school, only to confront an ugly, uncertain future. Across the city, abandoned factories populate the skyline; meanwhile...
I Am Not Your Final Girl
AuthorClaire C. Holland
From Claire C. Holland, a timely collection of poetry that follows the final girl of slasher cinema - the girl who survives until the end - on a journey of retribution and reclamation. From the white picket fences of 1970s Haddonfield to the apocalyptic end of the world, Holland confronts the role of women...
Out Behind the Barn
AuthorJohn Boden
ISBN1727414020
(Thank you to the authors for sending me an advance copy in exchange for an honest review)

Oh my heart! Let me whip out my Horror Boxes Checklist and explain how in just over 100 pages, Chad Lutzke and John Boden seamlessly blended their unique, yet harmonious storytelling voice to tell a tale...
Dead of Winter
AuthorKealan Patrick Burke
A boy becomes convinced that there is something not right about the snowmen in his yard...A man takes drastic steps to reconcile with his estranged daughters on Christmas Eve...Santa Claus takes a ride into the heart of darkness...A widower joins the search for a missing woman in an eerily deserted...
Fountain Dead
AuthorTheresa Braun
Mark is uprooted from his home and high school in the Twin Cities and forced to move with his family into a Victorian in Nowhere-ville. Busy with the relocation and fitting in, Mark’s parents don’t see what’s unfolding around them—the way rooms and left behind objects seem alive with a haunted...
Skullface Boy
AuthorChad Lutzke
ISBN1724864815
"My name is Levi. I’m 16. I’ve got a skull for a face. And here's how shit went down."

Having never been outside the walls of Gramm Jones Foster Care Facility, sixteen-year-old Levi leaves in the middle of the night with an empty backpack and a newfound lust for life. A journey that leads him...
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