{"product_id":"midnight-muse-1","title":"Midnight Muse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen a metal band's lead singer vanishes in the woods, the mushrooms in the forest might know more than they're letting on in this mycelium-metal horror novel from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Jo Kaplan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe dead collect in low places.\u003c\/i\u003e That's what Brynn Werner, lead singer of metal band Queen Carrion, wrote in her notebook before she vanished while staying at a cabin in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA year later, on the anniversary of her disappearance, the rest of her bandmates visit the cabin to remember her and find a way to move on. But tensions arise over who should be their new singer and who is responsible for Brynn's disappearance-tensions that boil over as they realize not all is as it seems at Trail Creek Cabin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStrange entries in the guestbook write about visions of a pale form that moves through the trees, figures wearing gas masks lurk in the distance, and there's a strange fungus growing from the wall of a tunnel in the cabin's basement. Then they hear Brynn's voice echo impossibly through the forest--and the pale form that emerges from the trees is her perfect likeness. Is it her ghost...or something else?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrynn knew there was a secret in these woods. It's why she chased her muse here to finish her masterpiece. \u003ci\u003eThe Midnight Muse\u003c\/i\u003e is an alluring and grotesque dissection of self and fungus. Kaplan delivers an ominous spiral of psychological torment as the members of Queen Carrion slip into a more \u003ci\u003enatural\u003c\/i\u003e skin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jo Kaplan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47285730869484,"sku":"9781960988805","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781960988805.jpg?v=1770417726","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/midnight-muse-1","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}