Iron & Brass

Name: Iron & Brass
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ISBN: 9781716318450

✍️ Chris Fain

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📝 Description: Iron & Brass

Ramona Stone is a retired boxer and cancer survivor barely getting by in a faded Rust-Belt town-until she unwittingly frees a jinni from a thrift-store teapot. Now her cat has the power of speech, an ultra-powerful being is bunking on her couch...and her snow-locked community is set to become a battleground between our reality and a magic netherworld beyond. For the shapeshifting cannibal ghul Ashera has vowed to pursue Izi al-Samoon from the frozen vales of urban West Virginia to the gates of Hell itself-or take Ramona's own weary soul in his place. Echoing the epic wainscot-fantasy traditions of Neil Gaiman and China Mieville and evoking the visceral horror of Clive Barker, Chris Fain's IRON & BRASS is a dark urban fable of unlikely heroes, unspeakable villains, and the lengths we go to for love and honor.

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This volume effectively merges the visceral horror of Clive Barker with the mythic scope of Gaiman and Miéville. The setting of a snow-locked Rust Belt town provides a stark, atmospheric backdrop for the encroaching magic netherworld. Ramona Stone serves as a compelling protagonist, her background as a boxer adding physical weight to the supernatural stakes. The presence of a speaking cat and a couch-dwelling entity injects necessary levity into the grim narrative without undermining the threat posed by the cannibal ghul Ashera. While the tone shifts between domestic absurdity and epic dread, the execution remains consistent in its commitment to dark fantasy traditions. It suits readers who enjoy urban quests with psychological depth and visceral action.

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Horror Reads editorial team

This volume effectively merges the visceral horror of Clive Barker with the mythic scope of Gaiman and Miéville. The setting of a snow-locked Rust Belt town provides a stark, atmospheric backdrop for the encroaching magic netherworld. Ramona Stone serves as a compelling protagonist, her background as a boxer adding physical weight to the supernatural stakes. The presence of a speaking cat and a couch-dwelling entity injects necessary levity into the grim narrative without undermining the threat posed by the cannibal ghul Ashera. While the tone shifts between domestic absurdity and epic dread, the execution remains consistent in its commitment to dark fantasy traditions. It suits readers who enjoy urban quests with psychological depth and visceral action.