Red Rabbit Ghost

An impulsive young outcast confronts his small town’s dark secrets in this atmospheric and haunting debut horror novel from brilliant new voice Jen Julian.

The town of Blacknot is not what it appears, and a place on its desolate edge known only as The Night House is calling… 

What remains of Jesse’s mother can fit inside an old jerky tin. Photos, postcards, a single, worn-out bracelet. But nothing that can explain why she was found dead eighteen years earlier on the bank of a river, her infant son left wailing by her side. When Jesse starts to receive anonymous messages promising him answers, he returns home to the regressive town of Blacknot, North Carolina so that his lifelong obsession can finally be laid to rest.

But Jesse’s investigation is stirring up trouble with the locals, including his well-armed ex-boyfriend and the mysterious daughter of a local businessman, each with their own inscrutable agendas. They will soon find that this backwater town holds a power more volatile than any of them could have imagined, and that the answers they seek might be better left buried.

• "At once elegiac and deeply visceral, Red Rabbit Ghost is a bittersweet ode to all the ways in which a place can haunt us long after we’ve departed – and transform us when we return."
  Georgia Summers, #1 International Bestselling Author of City of Stardust
• “Red Rabbit Ghost is a terrifying delight that deftly weaves together the ordinary and supernatural horrors of life in a small town. Sharply contemporary while remaining true to its Southern gothic roots, Red Rabbit Ghost is the perfect blend of WhatsApp and witchcraft, dive bars and haunted houses. Once I started reading, I couldn’t put it down!”
  Gwen Kirby, author of Shit Cassandra Saw
• "[An] auspicious debut... [The] story is borne along by well-shaded characters, whose complex inner lives abound with mysteries that can’t all be easily solved. The result is a chilling dark fantasy that readers will savor." 
  Publishers Weekly
• "Every time I thought I had a handle on the deviously entertaining Red Rabbit Ghost, it slipped through my fingers and became something even more remarkable. Jen Julian weaves a dark spell with the bones of southern gothic storytelling, crackling (and often hilarious) dialogue, and gorgeous prose. To enter this haunted swamp of a novel is to lose yourself in cosmic mystery."
  Andy Marino, author of The Swarm