Caitlin Starling Reading: The Graceview Patient

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Join us as we welcome author Caitlin Starling to Haunted Burrow Books! Caitlin will be discussing her new horror book, The Graceview Patient, in conversation with voice artist Xe Sands. The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and a book signing.

About Caitlin Starling

Caitlin Starling is the bestselling and award-winning author of The Starving Saints, Last to Leave the Room, The Death of Jane Lawrence, and The Luminous Dead. She writes genre-hopping horror and speculative fiction, and has been paid to invent body parts. You can find links to her work and social media at www.caitlinstarling.com.

About Xe Sands

Xe Sands is an award-winning narrator known for intimate and engaging delivery of over 500 audiobooks, specializing in authentic delivery of first person POV, horror, memoir, and romance. She has been recognized for her work by Salon, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, and AudioFile for titles such as The Staircase in the Woods, The Devil by Name, The Last to Leave the Room, The Murmur of Bees, The Pallbearers Club, Now That You Mention It, Just Like Home, and Wayward.

About the book

Misery meets Invasion of the Body Snatchers in this genre-bending, claustrophobic hospital gothic from the bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence.

Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.

The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.

Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls.

About Haunted Burrow Books

HBB is an independent bookstore in Capital Hill Focusing on horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and other moody books.

About attending events at Haunted Burrow

• Attendees are welcome to bring previous books by the author for signings, but please do not bring copies of the newest book.
• Masks are optional.
• Attendees can find unpaid parking about two blocks off the main road, paid street parking on 15th Ave, and an affordable paid lot on the same block. Attendees are encouraged to use public transit.
• Drinks are welcome, but please don't bring food unless medically necessary.
• HBB does not normally have a public restroom because it is in the back office, but we will be making exceptions for this event. Please be respectful of the space.