THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT: Caitlin Starling in conversation with Cynthia Pelayo

“Misery” meets “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” in the new horror novel from Caitlin Starling, bestsellng author of “The Death of Jane Lawrence” and “Starving Saints”! Known for her genre-hoping, speculative gothic novels, Caitlin’s newest story, “The Graceview Patient”, also mixes in medical and hospital horror, and you get to hear directly from the author all about the development of her latest creepy tale.

Join Caitlin at Blue House Books on Wednesday, October 22nd at 7 p.m. for the release of “The Graceview Patient”. Caitlin will be discussing her latest book with Chicago author Cynthia Pelayo (“The Shoemaker’s Magician”), answering questions from the audience, and signing books!

This event requires a $5 reservation deposit. Get all the details here: https://blue-house-books.com/events/3526320251022

About THE GRACEVIEW PATIENT:

Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what’s real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview’s halls.

About CAITLIN STARLING:

Caitlin Starling is the nationally bestselling author of “The Starving Saints”, “The Death of Jane Lawrence”, the Bram Stoker-nominated “The Luminous Dead”, and “Last to Leave the Room”, as well as the upcoming “The Graceview Patient”. Her work showcases her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted hospitals. Caitlin also works in narrative design and has been paid to invent body parts. She’s always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.

About THE SHOEMAKER’S MAGICIAN:

From a Bram Stoker Award-winning author, a cult horror fan discovers that something sinister is at the heart of a series of brutal killings in Chicago.
A fabled lost movie. An increasing body count. How much do you risk for art?

Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America’s most beloved horror host, showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat—but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand.

After Paloma’s husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse, she knows that the only person that can help solve this mystery is Grand. When another body appears at an abandoned historic movie palace, the deaths prove to be connected to a silent film, lost to the ages, but somehow at the center of countless tragedies in Chicago. Paloma soon becomes trapped between protecting a silent movie that’s contributed to so much death in her city and the life of her young son.

With “The Shoemaker’s Magician”, Cynthia Pelayo continues to establish herself as one of the most powerful voices in riveting, thought-provoking dark fiction.

About CYNTHIA PELAYO:

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of “Loteria”, “Santa Muerte”, “The Missing”, “Poems of My Night”, “Into the Forest and All the Way Through”, “Children of Chicago”, “Crime Scene”, “The Shoemaker’s Magician”, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.