Nightwood / Vernacular Books (ePub)

"An eerie and imaginative melding of history and fantasy." - Kirkus Reviews

"If Shirley Jackson and Lewis Carroll had a love child, it'd write a lot like Elana Gomel." - Josh Schlossberg, author of MALINAE, editor of THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR, and undertaker at JoshsWorstNightmare.com

"In Nightwood, Gomel masterfully combines the horrific elements of fairy tales with even more horrific history to create a chilling and atmospheric story that blurs the boundaries between story and reality." - Gustavo Bondoni, the author of "Colony", "Desert Base Strike", "Outside" and many other SF and fantasy novels and stories.

All fairy tales were history once.

Ally is a Ukrainian bride who married a wealthy Californian, Carl Morris. Everything is strange in her new home: the shadowy redwoods; the peculiar neighbors; and the mystery surrounding the death of Carl's first wife. But Ally is determined to leave her own tragic past behind and to be a good wife and a good American.

Escaping darkness is not so easy. Ally discovers that her house is on the border of Nightwood, where fairy tales become nightmares and nightmares are real.

When Carl is abducted, Ally follows him into the land where the Red, Black, and White Horsemen drag the sun in their wake. There, Little Mother takes her prisoner, and Ally is forced to labor in a filthy farmyard filled with deformed human livestock. But the ghoulish Little Mother is not the most terrifying creature in Nightwood. The Ogre, squatting in the Castle with no Windows, is poised to invade our world. He has Carl; and he wants Ally. To save her husband and the world, she'll have to brave the horrors of Nightwood and face the truth of her past.