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The Haunting of Velkwood

by Gwendolyn Kiste

Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel · 2025 · Winner
Saga PresshorrorISBN 9781668034248

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About This Book

Twenty years ago, everyone in the town of Velkwood turned to ghosts overnight—except Talitha and two others who fled. Now Talitha is recruited to cross the border back into her ghostly hometown to investigate. Gwendolyn Kiste's Bram Stoker Award winner is an emotionally devastating suburban ghost story.

About the Author

Gwendolyn Kiste is an American author of dark speculative fiction and horror. She won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for The Haunting of Velkwood (2024). She has also won multiple Bram Stoker Awards in other categories and writes fiction that blends feminist horror with dark fantasy.

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