Apparitions! Outlaws! Mediums!
1884. Nathan Garlan hears and sees the dead. Using his uncanny aptitudes to assist society and its specters, he has become the most acclaimed medium in Boston. But not all esteem him. Nathan Garlan’s own mother craves her boy butchered—and she’s not the only one…
Misery! Lust! Murder!
New Haven. Sarah Winchester is the heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune and a haunted woman. She has searched for release from familial phantoms for two decades, yet found no respite. However, she has heard of a medium in Boston who regularly administers miracles…
Wit! Wonders! Outrage!
Who is the Reverend Doctor Enton Blake? Why does the lawless Hennet C. Daniels search for him? What form of profane curio is a trick box—and what, precisely, does one inter within it? Will Sarah Winchester find serenity through Nathan Garlan’s services? Or will Hester Garlan find her son first?
“Patty Templeton has a devilish imagination and a brimstone pen. You will leave her stories scorched.”
-Richard Kadrey, Bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series
"There Is No Lovely End gives us maybe was, should have been, and why not?: magic, history, reality, and whimsy. In distinctive and poetic prose, Patty Templeton presents a world enchanted and real. I'm reminded of the work of R.A. Lafferty, Mark Halprin, and Charles and Jack Finney—their best work. This is a novel of special imaginings and it's quite wonderful."
-Mort Castle, Bram Stoker Award-winning author
"Patty Templeton writes with grit, spit, and nerve, with teeth that draw blood when they kiss. She makes music of rotgut and dry air; to read her is to feel, always, a smear of dangerous sugar on the lips and a powerful thirst."
-Amal El-Mohtar, Nebula Award nominee and Editor of Goblin Fruit
"If – like me – you're constantly on the lookout for the next Great Talent in supernatural horror, I have good news for you. Two words: Patty Templeton. Jump on board and discover Templeton's unique blend of historical thriller and twisted ghost story. Trust me. You'll thank me later."
-John O’Neill, Publisher and Editor of Black Gate
"There Is No Lovely End is a New World populated with a new kind of ghost. Templeton's language is lavish and diabolical, as if Charles Dickens strolled into the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and came out the other end. Throughout the novel abounds a love of books and the bizarre, of specters and the spectacularly macabre. Here you will find mediums, outlaws, murderers, medicine shows, and Sarah Winchester as she never was - but should have been.”
-C.S.E. Cooney, Rhysling Award-winning author and poet
