{"id":2352,"date":"2011-08-31T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T21:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=2352"},"modified":"2016-07-12T12:09:39","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T18:09:39","slug":"new-book-announced-killing-ghost-by-christopher-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/new-book-announced-killing-ghost-by-christopher-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"New Book Announced: Killing Ghost by Christopher Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8220;Ransom\u2019s style mimics that of the early Stephen King and Dan Simmons\u2019s horror fiction.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u2014 Library Journal<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/page\/CDP\/PROD\/ransom01\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/mm5\/graphics\/00000001\/ransom01.jpg?w=853&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Killing Ghost\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong>Today we&#8217;re pleased to announce <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/page\/CDP\/PROD\/ransom01\">Killing Ghost<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>by Christopher Ransom, which we&#8217;ll be publishing next year as a Trade Hardcover Edition, a signed Limited Edition hardcover with a print run of just 350 copies, and a Deluxe Lettered Edition of just 26 copies!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/page\/CDP\/PROD\/ransom01\">Killing Ghost<\/a><\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong>by Christopher Ransom<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Book:<\/strong><br \/>\nJames Hastings once enjoyed a lucrative but hollow career pretending to be someone else.  But when his wife Stacey dies tragically behind the Los Angeles mansion she so lovingly restored, James finds himself alone, spiraling into grief, and haunted by a familiar menace that is not ready for him to move on.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><strong><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/mm5\/graphics\/images\/icons\/freeUSshipping.jpg?w=853&#038;ssl=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free US Shipping\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" \/><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>Salvation comes in the form of Annette Copeland, a beautiful widow who moves into the house next door.  James and Annette bond quickly over the spousal losses they have suffered, but as their unconventional romance escalates, Annette begins to exhibit uncanny manners and desires that belong to Stacey.  Concerned friends and former lovers who try to come between them meet with increasingly diabolical fates, and James becomes convinced Annette\u2019s cosmetic changes are only the beginning of a horrific yet alluring case of possession.<\/p>\n<p>Driven to isolation far outside of Los Angeles, James and his unstable companion return to the deserted gated community of Sheltering Palms, where evidence of Annette\u2019s family tragedy is waiting for him, and James\u2019s investigations unwillingly draw the attentions of two dangerous personalities: Rick Butterfield, a delusional policeman who knows Annette\u2019s history and still pines for her; and Aaron, a 10-year-old boy who wanders the desolate subdivision nightly, waiting for his parents to come home.<\/p>\n<p>With every attempt to atone for his failings as a husband plunging James deeper into a nightmare struggle for survival, he must finally confront the ghost of the man he used to be, the origin of his resurrected other half, and the true face of the evil that has brought them together.<\/p>\n<p><em>Killing Ghost<\/em> is at once a descent into psychological terror, a midnight meditation of the addictive nature of love, and a novel that redefines the ghost story for a culture obsessed with dark entertainments.<\/p>\n<p>Previously published in the UK as <em>The Haunting of James Hastings,<\/em> this Cemetery Dance hardcover edition brings the novel to the US for the first time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/page\/CDP\/PROD\/ransom01\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Read more or place your order while the signed editions last!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ransom\u2019s style mimics that of the early Stephen King and Dan Simmons\u2019s horror fiction.&#8221; \u2014 Library Journal Today we&#8217;re pleased to announce Killing Ghost by Christopher Ransom, which we&#8217;ll be publishing next year as a Trade Hardcover Edition, a signed Limited Edition hardcover with a print run of just 350 copies, and a Deluxe Lettered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/new-book-announced-killing-ghost-by-christopher-ransom\/\" class=\"more-link button bg-gold white\">Continue Reading!<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Book Announced: Killing Ghost by Christopher Ransom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakingnews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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