Bronze

by Kit Reed

Jude Atkins travels to South Carolina to meet Peter Benedict, a wealthy and successful painter she met on the Internet, and who she thinks she loves. What should be a normal courtship becomes a twisted descent into a dark family legacy in which art threatens life. The Benedict family's secret and the dark ambitions of the beautiful, sinister sculptor Ava Benedict, Peter's mother, threaten to engulf Jude, Peter, and everything they hold dear.

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Genres: Fantasy, Horror

256 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Kit Reed was an American author of both speculative fiction and literary fiction, as well as psychological thrillers under the pseudonym Kit Craig.

Her 2013 "best-of" collection, The Story Until Now, A Great Big Book of Stories was a 2013 Shirley Jackson Award nominee. A Guggenheim fellow, she was the first American recipient of an international literary grant from the Abraham Woursell Foundation. She's had stories in, among others, The Yale Review, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Omni and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Literature. Her books Weird Women, Wired Women and Little Sisters of the Apocalypse were finalists for the Tiptree Prize. A member of the board of the Authors League Fund, she served as Resident Writer at Wesleyan University.

Reviews

[Bill Reynolds · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm a fan of the late Kit Reed, but not so much of horror fiction, so the first half of this was heavy sledding. Then it kicked into high gear and became impossible to put down, with a killer climax.

[Sara]

Darker secret
old legasy
famly gothring
come come
old picture will be paint
darker climax
ma family come
that art still go nighty
its marvelous badly history
ma family come
come to cost
no time to lost
the bill run
come come