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Your Ghost Story

Anna Dressed in Blood  (Anna Dressed in Blood, volume 1)

By Kendare Blake  

21 Apr, 2023

Doing the WFC's Homework

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2012’s Anna Dressed in Blood is the first volume in Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood modern horror series.

Teenage Theseus Cassio Cass” Lowood was given three things by his father: 

  • a moderately embarrassing name, 
  • an athame, and
  • a determination to pursue his late father’s career as a ghost-hunter.

Cass transfers from high school to high school, chasing rumours of unquiet dead; he is supported in this mission by his widowed mother. He believes he is successful in his quest; he has dispatched many revenants with his inherited athame.

His latest quest will take him to Canada’s Thunder Bay, where Anna Dressed in Blood will turn his worldview upside down.

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