Bøker av Jennifer Anne Gordon

From the author of the Kindle Award Winning Novel for Best Horror 2020 -Beautiful,Frightening, and Silent-and Pretty/Ugly- Winner of The Kindle Award for Best Novel2022 (Reader's Choice) comes a collection of short stories contemplating horror, grief, and trauma.Simulacrum is a dark comedic tale about college life, and love. It is the story of what happens whentwo sociopaths attend art exhibits, drink lemon vodka, and spar over everything and anything.Periods.Coloring books.Art.This is the story of our unnamed narrator...an origin story of a would-be, hopes to be, serial killer.The Japanese Box is a story that blends memoir, creative nonfiction, and the horror of a coming-of-agestory, and a coming of middle-aged story.Imagine growing up with a reflection that is often absent, and a Japanese box that is filled with things thatshould never have been there.Memories.Violence.The Japanese Box is a love letter to anxiety, trauma, grief, and longing. It is a story of a child becomingan adult, and all the ghosts and misfortunes that happen in order to survive.The Lithium Moon: Simone is an artist by day, and an emotionally abused wife at night. She is asuccessful artist with a long history of schizoid effective disorder with bipolar tendencies.When her marriage goes from good to bad, she suffers her first miscarriage. The tragedy coincides with awolf moon-Trauma and magic converge seem to converge in Simone's head.This story explores sadness, illness, hallucinations, full moons, and the creative process.What Stage of Grief is not a poem, or a song, but a dirge.Fantasy and facts, this poem walks a fine line between nightmares and memories. Grief stories and lovestories. Dogs, and drama. Nightmares, and nevermore.

The latest book from the critically acclaimed author of Beautiful, Frightening, and Silent; Jennifer Anne Gordon.On an almost uninhabitable rocky island off the coast of Maine, a Hotel looms over the shore, an ever-present gray lady that stands strong like a guard, keeping watch. For many who come here, this island is a sanctuary and a betrayal.This is a place where memories linger like ghosts, and the ephemeral nature of time begins to peel away ...like the sanity of all who have been unlucky enough to step foot on its shore.In the late spring of 1873, Isabelle gave birth to her son Oscar, he cried for three startling minutes, and then went silent. During the months that follow, Isabelle is drugged and lulled into an almost hallucinatory world of grief and fear. Her life begins to feel as though it exists in a terrifying new reality separated from those around her ...When her grieving begins to make her husband, Henry, uncomfortable, he and his mother conspire to send Isabelle away to a Summer Hotel on Dagger Island, where she can rest and heal. While they are adamant that the hotel is not an asylum and that Isabelle will be able to return eventually to her home, Isabelle understands in her heart that it is all a lie. That perhaps, everything about being a woman in this time, may have always been a lie.Her family has lied to her, and she has lied to herself.The Hotel, of course, is not what it seems, and the foreboding Dagger Island begins to feel more like a prison than a retreat. Isabelle hears relentless sounds coming from the attic above her room, and the ever-present cries of small children scream in her head almost constantly. Are they hallucinations, or are they connected to the small cemetery she found, filled with the fresh dirt of little graves, the brokenhearted reminders of people that no one believes ever existed?She meets a fellow guest at the Hotel, a young, enigmatic, and deeply damaged priest, named Francis.Together they teeter on the edges of reality and try desperately to become free from the fates that their pasts have bound them to.From Daylight to Madness is a poetic, and haunting Gothic Fiction novel that is both profoundly unsettling and darkly romantic.