C.N. Vair

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C.N. Vair (she/her) is a horror and dark fantasy author living in Western New York. A former journalist, she’s interested in the history and haunted corners of small towns, the magic and malice of the natural world, and power in all its forms. When she’s not writing, you can find her wandering in woods and cemeteries, growing poisonous plants in her garden, or spending time with her husband and dogs.

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The Devil Knows Her Name

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Until Death by Mary Berman
Until Death
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I'm going to shut up about this book someday. Not today, though. Not today.

I can't remember the last time a book made me so unsettled. I felt like there was a hive of bees under my skin or maybe in my skull? Ophelia is moving so fast and there's simp
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" If Ophelia Cohen learned one thing from her parents, it’s that getting married is a bad idea. But if she’s learning anything from her widowed mother’s dementia, it’s that dying alone is worse. So when she meets Luke — the man of her mother’s dr..." Read more of this blog post »
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The draw of this book for me was the Devil; I didn't expect to be so taken in by Judas (I guess the Devil and I have that in common). This is a deliciously lush and unhurried examination of these two characters, both of whom are rendered with incredi ...more
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Bar Fridman-Tell cocoons you in her glorious prose and her sumptuous worldbuilding, and you can see where the horror might creep in but it's not there yet, it's all beautiful and innocent. Her character work is so deft, so expert that you start to wo ...more
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The Sea Hides Its Dead by Megan Bontrager
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A deliciously claustrophobic nightmare made all the more powerful and resonant by an exquisitely realized emotional core. Megan Bontrager has given me everything I want in a main character — Caro is unrepentant but never unaffected, desperate but not ...more
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