In 16th Century England, Thea Green falls in love with the mysterious Peter Smith. She has never been understood by her small village, who look at her slantwise and whisper “witch” behind her back. With Peter, she feels seen for the first time. But when they marry within a circle of ancient yew trees, Thea’s life is set on a different course. Centuries later, Thea walks the world alone, searching for other people who are like her: immortal. But every time she thinks she’s found one, they disappear. Moments from being bundled into an unmarked van, Thea is rescued by a tattooed stranger who knows exactly where the others have been taken. What she doesn’t know, is that Thea has already met the one behind it all, centuries before.

A dark and utterly original literary horror debut, following a priest whose bloodthirsty life has extended far longer than any mere human’s—and is upended when a stranger comes to town Stutley Tillinghast lives a solitary life, ostensibly as the minister of a remote rural parish in Rhode Island. For many decades now, what little human contact he’s allowed himself has been brief, frenzied and bloody, and has always ended in a shallow grave in his cellar. There’s a name for what he is, but he prefers not to use it: it is simple enough that he has his needs, and that when they become unbearable, he fulfils them. In his long and lonely life, he has met only one other like him—the woman he still yearns for, the one who made him what he is. Then a girl arrives, searching for him. She has his last name, and bears an uncanny resemblance to that woman, awakening memories Tillinghast had long suppressed; the connection he feels for her is immediate and overwhelming. She’s also sick, very sick, with symptoms Tillinghast recognizes all too well…and only he knows how to cure her. Inspired by the real events of the New England vampire panic of the nineteenth century, TILLINGHAST is a novel to sink your teeth into: at once a gripping, atmospheric horror that turns the classic monster narrative on its head; a literary work of exceptional prose about giving into–or resisting–our impulses; and a remarkably moving father-daughter story that will leave you unexpectedly hopeful—and rooting, despite your every instinct, for the killers.