PRAISE FOR WINTER TIDE : " Winter Tide is a weird, lyrical mystery -- truly strange and compellingly grim. It's an innovative gem that turns Lovecraft on his head with cleverness and heart" --Cherie Priest, author of Maplecroft and Boneshaker "A mythos yarn that totally reverses the polarity on Lovecraft's xenophobia, so that in the end the only real monsters are human beings." --Charles Stross, Hugo Award-winning author of the Laundry Files and the Merchant Princes series " Winter Tide is a treasure chest. This is an excellent novel and I can't wait for more." --Victor LaValle, author of The Ballad of Black Tom and The Devil in Silver "This is Wicked for the Cthulhu Mythos: never quite contradicting, but dancing through the shadows and dredging beautiful things out of the deep, pulling them, at last, into the light." --Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author of Every Heart a Doorway "I just want to hang out more with Aphra and her found family, not to mention her family under the sea. [ Winter Tide ] is a great story and a seamless subversion of Lovecraft's most repellent views while simultaneously being a tribute to his greatest accomplishments." -- Smart Bitches Trashy Books "Emrys plots out an impressive book that updates Lovecraft's creations with added nuance and empathy.
" --Andrew Liptak, The Verge "Deeply felt, humane.exceptionally compelling." -- RT BookReviews Top Pick, 4 ½ Stars " Winter Tide is a delicious, rich concoction that centers its story on its characters." -- Kirkus Reviews "A generous novel, a kind one, and an exceptionally accomplished debut." --Liz Bourke for Locus Magazine "Relevant and resonant." -- Publishers Weekly "Emrys uses the beautiful structures of Lovecraft to make a bold statement about difference and culture." -- Booklist "[I] will certainly be looking forward to anything else written by Ruthanna Emrys. [An] intriguing and welcoming book.
" --Forbidden Planet " Winter Tide is a haunting, beautifully-crafted ballad exploring love, loss, and monsters." --Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper and Midnight Taxi Tango "An engrossing story about othering and family that turns Lovecraft fascinatingly inside out." --Jo Walton, Hugo Award-winning author of Among Others and The Just City " Winter Tide shines an unexpected light on the shadow over Innsmouth, and shows how all creatures have to find common ground (or ocean) against evil." --Alex Bledsoe, author of Long Black Curl "Emrys has done what Lovecraft never could -- create complex characters in an intricate plot that engages the heart at the same time as it curdles the blood." --Sam J. Miller, winner of the Shirley Jackson Award PRAISE FOR "THE LITANY OF EARTH": "'The Litany of Earth' by Ruthanna Emrys is something special. a fascinating spin on the Cthulhu Universe." --Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky "What if Lovecraft's undersea creatures were not creepy monsters, but a persecuted people? [.
] Emrys does justice to the idea in this lovely story of alienation and finding a new life in the shadow of the old." --Aliette de Bodard, author of The House of Shattered Wings.