The Monster of Elendhaven
Sep 2019 · Tordotcom
4.4star
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“A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing. I loved it.” —Joe Hill
“A tight, perfectly crafted story about retribution and what monsters deserve; stylish, quirky, and weirdly sexy? I’m into it.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel
A Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award!
Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
“A tight, perfectly crafted story about retribution and what monsters deserve; stylish, quirky, and weirdly sexy? I’m into it.” —R. F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel
A Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award!
Debut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.
The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. But not everything dies so easily. A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. A monster who cannot die. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Ratings and reviews
4.4
17 reviews
Ned Kelly
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November 8, 2023
we get the point. there's to much cockiness to early with our giving us anything but everything about our characters and who when they realise they're of the same they must join forces to beat the true evil..... something like that. I,m not sure how these samples are set up up I don't feel they're giving the books a good chance or maybe I,m reading what I have read in another book and characters before. Then again it might be magnificent but I don't feel it's in my price range to find out. also since my first purchase everything doubled?
Sarah
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September 27, 2019
Reads like a beautifully transcribed nightmare The Monster of Elendhaven, Jennifer Giesbrecht's debut novella, is not for the fainthearted. However, while it contains dark themes, the shorter length keeps it on the tolerably terrifying end of the horror spectrum. In a novella, every word has to count toward building character, plot, and mood. Giesbrecht's storytelling is bare-boned yet atmospheric, her dialogue as cutting as her characters' knives and scalpels. The Monster of Elendhaven builds a house of cards whose foundation is the unhealthy, codependent relationship between Elendhaven's self-proclaimed monster and a sadistic magician bent on destruction.
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About the author
JENNIFER GIESBRECHT is a native of Halifax, Nova Scotia where she earned an undergraduate degree in History, spent her formative years as a professional street performer, and developed a deep and reverent respect for the ocean. She currently works as a game writer for What Pumpkin Studios. In 2013 she attended the Clarion West Writers Workshop. Her work has appeared in Nightmare Magazine, XIII: ‘Stories of Resurrection’, Apex, and Imaginarium: The Best of Canadian Speculative Fiction. She lives in a quaint, historic neighbourhood with two of her best friends and five cats. The Monster of Elendhaven is her first book.
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