The Family Unit and Other Fantasies (30 page)

Laurence Klavan wrote the novels
The Cutting Room
and
The Shooting Script
, which were published by Ballantine Books. He won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for the novel
Mrs. White
, co-written under a pseudonym. It was made into the movie
White of the Eye
. He and Susan Kim wrote the Young Adult novel
Wasteland
, and its sequel,
Wanderers
, which were published by Harper Collins. The third installment in the series,
Guardians
, will be published next year. Their graphic novels,
City of Spie
s and
Brain Camp
, were published by First Second Books at Macmillan.
Brain Camp
was a Junior Literary Guild Selection and a Scholastic Book Fair Selection. His short work has been published in such print and online journals as
The Alaska Quarterly
,
Conjunctions
,
The Literary Review
,
Gargoyle
,
Louisville Review
,
Natural Bridge
,
Failbetter
,
Pank
,
Stickman Review
,
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
,
Albedo One,
and
Morpheus Tales
, among many others. He received two Drama Desk nominations for the book and lyrics of
Bed and Sofa
, the musical produced by the Vineyard Theater in New York. It also received two Obie Awards, five other Drama Desk nominations, including Best Musical, and an Outer Critics Circle nomination for Best Musical. It made its London debut at the Finborough Theatre and was nominated for five Offie (Off West End) Awards, including Best Production. His one-act,
The Summer Sublet
, is included in Best American Short Plays 2000–2001. His theatre work is published by Dramatists Play Service. He lives in New York City.

In the woods outside Overdeere, Ontario, there are trees that speak, a village that doesn’t appear on any map and a hill that opens wide, entrapping unwary travellers. Music drifts up from deep underground, while dreams—and nightmares—take on solid shape, flitting through the darkness. It’s a place most people usually know better than to go, at least locally—until tonight, at least, when five bloodlines mired in ancient strife will finally converge once more.

AVAILABLE AUGUST 2014

978-1-77148-202-8

Ghost thumbs. Miniature dogs. One very sad can of tomato soup . . . British Fantasy Award-winner Helen Marshall’s second collection offers a series of twisted surrealities that explore the legacies we pass on to our children. A son seeks to reconnect with his father through a telescope that sees into the past. A young girl discovers what lies on the other side of her mother’s bellybutton. Death’s wife prepares for a very special funeral. In
Gifts for the One Who Comes After
, Marshall delivers eighteen tales of love and loss that cement her as a powerful voice in dark fantasy and the New Weird. Dazzling, disturbing, and deeply moving.

AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2014

978-1-77148-303-2

Things Mary doesn’t want to fall into: the river, high school, her mother’s life.

Things Mary does kind of want to fall into: love, the sky.

This is the story of a girl who sees a boy float away one fine day. This is the story of the girl who reaches up for that boy with her hand and with her heart. This is the story of a girl who takes on the army to save a town, who goes toe-to-toe with a mad scientist, who has to fight a plague to save her family. This is the story of a girl who would give anything to get to babysit her baby brother one more time. If she could just find him.

It’s all up in the air for now, though, and falling fast. . . .

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2014

978-1-77148-174-8

WE ARE ALL MONSTERS
Lost in time, shrouded in dark myths of blood and magic,
The Door in the Mountain
leads to the world of ancient Crete: a place where a beautiful, bitter young princess named Ariadne schemes to imprison her godmarked half-brother deep in the heart of a mountain maze, where a boy named Icarus tries, and fails, to fly—and where a slave girl changes the paths of all their lives forever.

AVAILABLE NOW IN CANADA; OCTOBER 2014 IN US

978-1-77148-192-2

Liv might be in love with a serial killer. You’d think the fact she can talk to the dead would make it easier to discover who’s really been slicing up her high school bullies. But all the clues have been leading back to Adam—the oh so hot fugitive she’s been hiding in the funeral home. As the bodies pile up, she’ll have to risk matching wits with the ghosts of her freshly dead classmates—some of whom have deadly agendas of their own. Was the cute guy with the wicked grin really framed for murder? Or will Liv just end up the latest bloody victim at Rosewood Academy?

AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2014 IN CANADA; MARCH 2015 IN US

978-1-77148-307-0