A01=Caitlin Starling
Author_Caitlin Starling
autoimmune disorder
Category=FK
death of jane lawrence author
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experimentation
gothic horror
haunted hospital
hospital
immunocompromised
isolation
medical trial
psychological
speculative horror
standalone
upmarket horror
Product details
- ISBN 9781250340757
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 148 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Margaret lives with a rare autoimmune condition that has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial.
The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a full-time patient, subjecting herself to the near-total destruction of her immune system and its subsequent regeneration. The trial will essentially kill most of, but not all of her. But as the treatment progresses and her body begins to fail, she stumbles upon something sinister living and spreading within the hospital.
Unsure of what's real and what is just medication-induced delusion, Margaret struggles to find a way out as her body and mind succumb further to the darkness lurking throughout Graceview's halls.
CAITLIN STARLING is the nationally bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence, Last to Leave the Room, and the Bram Stoker-nominated The Luminous Dead. Her other works include Yellow Jessamine and a Vampire: The Masquerade novella, The Land of Milk and Honey. Her short fiction has been published by GrimDark Magazine, and her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare, Uncanny, and Nightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design. She's always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.
