The BookFest, Spring 2025 - First Place: Supernatural Creatures and Beings
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It isn't easy being the Grim Reaper.
For millennia, Death watched over the fleeting lives of mortals, claiming their souls as is her duty. Each year, the story was the same. Humans wasted the gifts they were given, allowing the precious sands of time to slip through their grasp. But, who did they blame? Not themselves, of course, but the horseman who came to collect her due.
Such an existence grew tiresome for the creature. Bored of humanity’s antics, the reaper opened a quiet apothecary and began peddling her curious wares. Her little shop became an escape from their ire, a distraction to pass the decades.
Over time, the mortals let down their guards, but the horseman never did. Now and then, she changed the rules of the game, reminding humans of one very important thing…
Death is inevitable. There is no escape. For in the end, there is no way out of the graves they’ve dug for themselves. When the tides turn, no plea or bargain will change their fates.
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This compilation of short stories contains five previously published tales in the Apothecary of Curiosities series, as well as an exclusive bonus story not available anywhere else:
- "Death's Nell"
- "Kiss of Death"
- "Deadly Delicacies"
- "Everything Dies"
- "Death Waits For No One" (Exclusive To Volume One)
- "Death Warmed Over"
Product Details:
- Publication date : March 30, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 204 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1959751220
- ISBN-13 : 978-1959751229
- Item Weight : 9.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.51 x 8.5 inches
This book is a good fit for fantasy readers and readers new to horror. It's dark and whimsical. Recommended for fans of T. Kingfisher, Rachel Harrison, and Darcy Coates.
Free Gift from the Author Pack
💚 This book comes with a FREE Gift from the Author Pack while supplies last.
Includes:
-
A Piece of Character Art
- A Bookmark
*While supplies last.*
Trigger/Content Warnings:
“Death’s Nell:” Suggestive language, depictions of blood, mentions of off-page domestic violence, and mentions of off-page infant death
“Kiss of Death:” Magic, depictions of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, suggestive language, blood, and murder, including patricide
“Deadly Delicacies:" Magic, consumption of alcohol, depictions of spousal abuse, and mentions of murder, including mariticide
“Everything Dies:" Magic, depression, consumption of alcohol, accidental death, mommy issues, and reincarnation
“Death Waits For No One:" Magic, mugging, child death, death of a parent, revenge killing, blood, alcohol, intimations of corpse mutilation (off-page), daddy issues
“Death Warmed Over:" Magic, supernatural creatures, sibling rivalry, alcohol, gore, as well as mentions of natural disasters, climate change, an impending apocalypse, and of potential warfare
The BookFest, Spring 2025 - First Place: Supernatural Creatures and Beings
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It isn't easy being the Grim Reaper.
For millennia, Death watched over the fleeting lives of mortals, claiming their souls as is her duty. Each year, the story was the same. Humans wasted the gifts they were given, allowing the precious sands of time to slip through their grasp. But, who did they blame? Not themselves, of course, but the horseman who came to collect her due.
Such an existence grew tiresome for the creature. Bored of humanity’s antics, the reaper opened a quiet apothecary and began peddling her curious wares. Her little shop became an escape from their ire, a distraction to pass the decades.
Over time, the mortals let down their guards, but the horseman never did. Now and then, she changed the rules of the game, reminding humans of one very important thing…
Death is inevitable. There is no escape. For in the end, there is no way out of the graves they’ve dug for themselves. When the tides turn, no plea or bargain will change their fates.
*************************
This compilation of short stories contains five previously published tales in the Apothecary of Curiosities series, as well as an exclusive bonus story not available anywhere else:
- "Death's Nell"
- "Kiss of Death"
- "Deadly Delicacies"
- "Everything Dies"
- "Death Waits For No One" (Exclusive To Volume One)
- "Death Warmed Over"
Product Details:
- Publication date : March 30, 2025
- Language : English
- Print length : 204 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1959751220
- ISBN-13 : 978-1959751229
- Item Weight : 9.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.51 x 8.5 inches
This book is a good fit for fantasy readers and readers new to horror. It's dark and whimsical. Recommended for fans of T. Kingfisher, Rachel Harrison, and Darcy Coates.
Free Gift from the Author Pack
💚 This book comes with a FREE Gift from the Author Pack while supplies last.
Includes:
-
A Piece of Character Art
- A Bookmark
*While supplies last.*
Trigger/Content Warnings:
“Death’s Nell:” Suggestive language, depictions of blood, mentions of off-page domestic violence, and mentions of off-page infant death
“Kiss of Death:” Magic, depictions of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, suggestive language, blood, and murder, including patricide
“Deadly Delicacies:" Magic, consumption of alcohol, depictions of spousal abuse, and mentions of murder, including mariticide
“Everything Dies:" Magic, depression, consumption of alcohol, accidental death, mommy issues, and reincarnation
“Death Waits For No One:" Magic, mugging, child death, death of a parent, revenge killing, blood, alcohol, intimations of corpse mutilation (off-page), daddy issues
“Death Warmed Over:" Magic, supernatural creatures, sibling rivalry, alcohol, gore, as well as mentions of natural disasters, climate change, an impending apocalypse, and of potential warfare