Catriona Ward

Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC. She grew up all over the world, including in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen and Morocco. She read English at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, and later studied acting in New York. When she returned to London she worked on her first novel while working for a human rights foundation until she left to take an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She won the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel in 2016 for her debut, The Girl from Rawblood, and again in 2019 for Little Eve, making her the first woman to win the prize twice. Little Eve also won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. The Last House on Needless Street was a winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, and Sundial was the winner of the Best Hardcover Novel at the ITW Thriller Awards. She lives in London and Devon.

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The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House.

“The new face of literary dark fiction.” —Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes

"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen King

In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street at the edge of the wild Washington woods lives a family of three.

A teenage girl who isn’t allowed outside, not after last time.

A man who drinks alone in front of his TV, trying to ignore the gaps in his memory.

And a house cat who loves napping and reading the Bible.

An unspeakable secret binds them together, but when a new neighbor moves in next door, what is buried out among the birch trees may come back to haunt them all.

Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel, a World Fantasy Award Finalist, Indie Next Pick, LibraryReads Top 10 Pick, and a Library Journal Editors' Pick!

(Tor Nightfire, September 2021)

Sundial

You can't escape what's in your blood...

All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. But Rob fears for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind.

She decides to take Callie back to her childhood home, to Sundial, deep in the Mojave Desert. And there she will have to make a terrible choice.

Callie is worried about her mother. Rob has begun to look at her strangely, and speaks of past secrets. And Callie fears that only one of them will leave Sundial alive…

The mother and daughter embark on a dark, desert journey to the past in the hopes of redeeming their future.

"Ward coaxes Rob’s gruesome past open like a toxic flower. ...And yet at its core, Sundial is about resilience. …And that, in itself, is an unthinkable feat." —The New York Times Book Review

Winner of Best Hardcover Novel at the ITW Thriller Awards, Finalist for the Bram Stoker and Locus Awards, a LibraryReads Top 10 Pick, and a GoodReads Choice Award Finalist for Best Horror!

(Tor Nightfire, March 2022)

Looking Glass Sound

In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.

It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.

But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that can’t be real – notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesn’t recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?

No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.

(Tor Nightfire, August 2023)