A Game in Yellow

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Euphoria meets Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke in this latest novel by the Bram Stoker Awardwinning author Hailey Piper, following a couple whose search to spice up their sex life leads them down a path of madness.

A kink-fixated couple, Carmen and Blanca, have been in a rut. That is until Blanca discovers the enigmatic Smoke in an under-street drug den, who holds pages to a strange play, The King in Yellow. Read too much, and youll fall into madness. But read just a little and pull back, and it gives you the adrenaline rush of survivors euphoria, leading Carmen to fall into a game of lust at a nightmares edge.

As the line blurs between the world Carmen knows and the one that she visits after reading from the play, she begins to desire more time in this other world no matter what horrors she brings back with her.

Bram Stoker Awardwinning author Hailey Piper masterfully blends horror, erotica, and psychological thriller in this captivating and chilling story.

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"A dangerous game of cat and mouse between a submissive lesbian at a dead end job and the Cthhonicpowers that lurk between the pages of a certain yellow play, A Game in Yellow is a tightly plotted homage that builds upon lost Carcossa and spins you around in a shimmering masquerade of the senses." -- Linden A. Lewis, author of TheFirst Sister
"Audacious as hell, with the broken heart and searing talent to make it sing." -- Christopher Golden, author of The House of Last Resort
Surreal, disquieting, and wholly absorbing, Hailey PipersA Game in Yellowpossesses such suffocating power to bewilder, to enchant, and to completely overwhelm the reader. Written with the provocativeness of a Lynchian fever dream and the sophistication of a story by Lovecraft, this is Pipers most arresting and satisfying work yet. A novel centered around mythology, obsession, sexuality, fetish, and the facade of the dramatic and the theatricalI surrendered gladly and this book melted my brain. -- Eric LaRocca, author ofThings Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Author Bio

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Awardwinning author ofQueen of Teeth,A Light Most Hateful,The Worm and His Kingsseries, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over 100 short stories appearing inWeird Tales,Pseudopod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, Cast of Wonders,and various other publications. Her nonfiction appears inWriters Digest,Library Journal,CrimeReads, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their occult rituals are secret. Find Hailey at HaileyPiper.com.