The Night Birds

Christopher Golden

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The next gripping, atmospheric horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden, set in a deteriorated, half-sunken freighter ship off the coast of Galveston, TX.

Charlie Book and Ruby Cahill have history. After their love ended in heartbreak years ago, they never expected to see each other again.

Now, as part of his work for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Book lives aboard the Christabel, a 19th century freighter half-sunken off the shore of Galveston. Over many years, a massive forest of mangrove trees has grown up through the deck of the ship, creating a startlingly beautiful enigma Book calls the Floating Forest. As a powerful storm churns through the Gulf, he intends to sleep on board as usual.

But when he arrives at the dock, he's stunned to find Ruby there waiting for him. And she's not alone. With her are a mysterious woman and her infant child, asking Book to hide them safely aboard the Christabel while they're on the run. Only it isn't the police who are after them, it's a coven of witches the woman, Mae, has fled, stealing away the helpless infant for whom the coven had hideous plans...or so Mae claims.

It's lunacy and Book wants nothing to do with it. But after the way he and Ruby ended things, and the unspoken pain between them, he can't refuse. Yet even as he brings them out to the ruined ship and its floating forest, there are shadowed figures looming back in Galveston, waiting out the storm. And despite the worsening wind and rain, the night birds are flying, scouring the coastline for their prey.

Book Details

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publish Date: May 6th, 2025
Pages: 304
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.20in - 6.20in - 1.20in - 0.95lb
EAN: 9781250285911
Categories: • Horror - General• Thrillers - Suspense

About the Author

Golden, Christopher: - Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ararat, All Hallows, Road of Bones, and Snowblind, among many other novels. He is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night and The New Dead, and won the Shirley Jackson Award for coediting The Twisted Book of Shadows. He lives in Massachusetts.

Praise for this book

"There's an inky black wellspring of utter darkness rooted at the center of Christopher Golden's remarkably skin-crawling novel, The Night Birds--a horrible blight that leaches into and pollutes the haunted heart of each character confined within pages soaked with the aching torment of despair. Atmospheric, deeply unsettling, and irresistibly captivating, The Night Birds is a masterful and unforgettable, tautly written supernatural thriller from a literary titan." --Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

"Consider Christopher Golden our unholy Noah and The Night Birds is his dark ark, carrying nothing but nightmares. The derelict ship at the heart of this unnerving novel may be shipwrecked, but the Christabel has set its course across my dreams night after night ever since I finished reading it. A true voyage into dread." --Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

Additional Praise for Christopher Golden:

"Golden's frenzied tale of demons and exorcisms is fast-paced, his portrayal of the insidiousness of possession is unsettling and it all comes together in a thrilling closing act." - New York Times on The House of Last Resort

"An essential read for horror and supernatural thriller fans." -- Library Journal (Starred) on Road of Bones

"Golden is writing at the top of his game." --Publishers Weekly (starred) on Road of Bones

"Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is tightly wound, atmospheric, and creepy as hell... I loved it." --Stephen King

"Golden evokes chills without relying on clichés and makes suspending disbelief easy through skillful characterizations of the leads. Horror fans should check this out." --Publishers Weekly on The House of Last Resort

"This new take on the exorcism tale adds spirits, desiccated corpses, and disgusting rats to the mix, making every page drip with terrifying imagery. It's a great choice for avid horror fans." --Booklist on The House of Last Resort

"The king of horror thrillers does it again. With this thoroughly modern exorcism story, Golden will make you believe in the existence of true evil." --Alma Katsu, author of The Fervor, on The House of Last Resort