The Sorrows

The Sorrows, an island off the coast of northern California, and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie and a couple of their female friends to stay a month in Castle Blackwood. Eddie is certain a haunted castle is just the setting Ben needs to find inspiration for a horror film. But what they find is more horrific than any movie. Something is waiting for them in the castle. A malevolent being has been trapped for nearly a century. And he’s ready to feed. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launching in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

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Author biog: Brian Keene named Jonathan Janz’s debut novel, The Sorrows, ‘the best horror novel of 2012.’ The Library Journal deemed his follow-up, House of Skin, ‘reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Peter Straub’s Ghost Story.’ Since then, Janz’s work has been lauded by writers like Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee, Tim Waggoner, Bryan Smith, and Ronald Kelly.


His novel Children of the Dark received a starred review in Booklist and was chosen by their board as one of the Top Ten Horror Books of the Year (2015–2016). In early 2017, his novel Exorcist Falls was released to critical acclaim.


His other titles include: The Nightmare Girl, Wolf Land, Savage Species and Dust Devils.