Gothic Horror with Tentacles, featuring a doomed, obsessed woman, a house with a heart of stone, and a touch-starved cannibal who sees the future. The future isn't looking good.

Emotionally unavailable eldritch monster bois are so my thing. ... there’s polyamory, and queer characters, ghosts, magic, zombies, and a story in part about living with the consequences of your ancestors’ enthusiasm for eldritch horrors. I loved it utterly. Nimue Brown, co-creator of the Hopeless, Maine graphic novels From the very get-go, when the opening chapter’s subheading tells us that the novel’s protagonist Carrie Rickard has 33 days left to live, Rosens’ authorial control has a clockwork finesse to it, whilst her prose is exquisitely organic and vibrant. Horrified Magazine Review The Crows will appeal to those who enjoy the supernatural in the modern day and stories that play with the usual tropes. It feels a series with a lot of potential and with all the groundwork this story lays I’ll be interested to see where Rosens goes with it next. Run Along the Shelves Review This is a fantastically surprising work of gothic horror. I loved it. Every single time I thought I had an idea of what the plot was doing the plot twisted around and bit me, gleefully. Meredith Debonnaire, author of Tales from Tantamount BOOK DESCRIPTION Carrie Rickard is obsessed, and she doesn’t know why. From the moment she sees the ruined, supposedly cursed, manor on the Sussex coast, she knows she has to have it. When a twist of fate gives her the means to own Fairwood House (locally nicknamed "The Crows"), she throws herself into its renovations – and wakes it up. As Carrie develops a strange bond with her new home, trying to rebuild her life after a traumatic breakup, she becomes entangled with the town’s dark folklore, supernatural threats, and the secrets of her eccentric, sinister neighbours, little knowing she only has 33 days left to live. Ricky Porter is a hoodie-wearing soothsayer and notorious outsider in Pagham-on-Sea, who knows full well Carrie’s days are numbered – and he’s looking forward to Day 33. If Carrie dies at the appointed time, regardless of how that happens, he has foreseen that he will finally get what he wants: Fairwood House, and the powerful artefact it contains. His dark abilities and troubled, eldritch family history entangle him in Carrie’s final days, as she navigates the mysteries and dangers of her new home; what he hasn’t foreseen is how difficult it is to keep her alive. As Ricky gets closer to Carrie and the living house he desperately wants to have for himself, a strange, twisted friendship begins to develop between them, even as Carrie discovers his full, monstrous identity… and Ricky starts to wonder if Day 33 will bring him what he wants at all. But every soothsayer knows, you can’t fight fate. Or can you? Blending supernatural horror, dark humour, and social commentary, THE CROWS is a modern Gothic novel about fate and friendship, the power of place, decaying communities haunted by past sins, and the deep tensions inherent in the desire to belong somewhere that rejects you. Available in eBook, paperback, and audiobook - serialised for free (with ads) on the Eldritch Girl podcast, Season 01. READER ADVISORY: This is a book full of Gothic Horror tropes, some mild eroticism (the sentient house is also eroticised in descriptions), and mental health issues depicted and explored in the context of abusive familial, platonic and romantic relationships. There are sex-positive characters but no on-page sex. There is no sexual assault, but there are scenes of boundary-crossing in a bedroom context and the pressurising of an asexual character questioning [his] levels of sexual attraction. There is recreational alcohol use and references/hints at recreational drug use and dealing (characters are positive, negative and neutral in their views, variously). An alcoholic character relapses in the book with the encouragement of another character, and has his own point of view. The following list is advisory not comprehensive: please take this as a general flavour/indicator of content and apologies if your specific trigger is present but has been missed. Reader discretion is advised. MENTAL/PHYSICAL HEALTH– Character (without claustrophobia) is put in a claustrophobic situation– Death, loss, bereavement throughout (including a dying elderly father)– Physical and mental health deterioration, induced coma, dehumanisation of a coma patient– Losing grip on reality, intrusive thoughts (inc. telepathic external ones causing confusion over sense of self, non-consensual messing with people’s heads, including the non-consensual removal of a memory in a physical pseudo-injection manner)– Head injuries and blunt force trauma, both violent attack and accidental (on-page)– Car crashes (one on-page, non-fatal ~ one reference to a historic, off-page, fatal, result of DUI)– Disordered eating (male monstrous character) ABUSIVE/DISTURBING DYNAMICS– Domestic abuse (emotional and psychological m/f, male serial cheater and gaslighter) and toxic co-dependent family relationships (physical, psychological, emotional abuse, inc. beatings and poisoning) ~ resulting intrusive thoughts, negative spirals of thought patterns and behaviour– Inbred monstrous family who are consensually and almost exclusively incestuous between siblings/cousins (hinted at, not explored, no cross-generational incest)– Asexual character pressured/questioning sexual attraction – boundary-crossing in m/f context, both ways to various degrees– Relapsing alcoholic character (encouraged by a manipulative maternal figure) and on-page POV drunkenness.– References to past drug/alcohol abuse by another character now sober/teetotal.– Dehumanisation of a coma patient– Intimidation and brutal murder of elderly characters including one in a care home setting (not by staff or relatives) HORROR ELEMENTS– Historic murder of a child (brutal, ritual killing)– Gore, mutilation, dismemberment, disembowelment, decapitation, exsanguination, torture and animal cruelty (historic/implied – a character is a soothsayer who reads entrails to see the future)– Fire/Arson, immolation as cause of death– Implied (consensual) sibling incest– Supernatural horror, body horror, monster horror– Threatened lobotomy by parasites– Zombies/zombie abuse! [abduction of girls by abusive mother-figure, treating women/girls like dolls]