Cold Snap

A grieving mother and son hope to survive Christmas in a remote mountain cabin, in this chilling novella of dread, isolation and sinister spirits lurking in the frozen woods. Perfect for fans of The Only Good Indians, The Shining and The Babadook. Two weeks ago, Christine Sinclaire's husband slipped off the roof while hanging Christmas lights and fell to his death on the front lawn. Desperate to escape her guilt and her grief, Christine packs up her fifteen-year-old son and the family cat and flees to the cabin they'd reserved deep in the remote Pennsylvania Wilds to wait out the holidays. It isn't long before Christine begins to hear strange noises coming from the forest. When she spots a horned figure watching from between frozen branches, Christine assumes it's just a forest animal-a moose, maybe, since the property manager warned her about them, said they'd stomp a body so deep into the snow nobody'd find it 'til spring. But moose don't walk upright like the shadowy figure does. They don't call Christine's name with her dead husband's voice. A haunting examination of the horrors of grief and the hunger of guilt, perfect for readers of Stephen King, Christina Henry, and Chuck Wendig.

Lindy Miller Ryan is an award-winning and Bram Stoker Awards®-nominated author, editor, professor, and short-film director. She was recently named one of horror's six most masterful anthology curators and dubbed a 'champion for women's voices in horror' by Shelf Awareness for her work in INTO THE FOREST: TALES OF THE BABA YAGA, which received a starred book review from BOOKLIST and been featured in BBC Culture, NPR, and others. A 2020 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree and previous board member for the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Lindy is a long-time advocate for women-in-horror and an active member of the HWA, ITW, and the Brothers Grimm Society of North America. The author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, Lindy's work has been adapted for film. Her debut horror-thriller novel, BLESS YOUR HEART, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press/Minotaur Books. On social @LindyRyanWrites and at LindyRyanWrites.com.