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Pub Date 15 Sep 2026 | Archive Date 15 Sep 2026


Description

Stoker winner Gwendolyn Kiste holds up a dark, queer mirror to The Great Gatsby in IN THESE GILDED, GHOSTLY HEARTS, a haunting exploration of the obsession and control at the edges of an American classic.

In 1955, Daisy Buchanan is found dead in an abandoned West Egg mansion, but her daughter Mel knows she's really been gone for years. No one knows whether Daisy was murdered, or if it was a simpler, slower death: her yearslong spiral of alcohol, abuse, and helplessness. But when Mel enters the estate, she finds Daisy's ghost, somehow frozen at twenty-five, and a charming, bleeding phantom that used to be Jay Gatsby.

To free her mother, Mel must carve a path through family secrets and decaying revelers: deep into Gatsby's starving house as it gorges itself on unfulfilled love and grows stronger every night.

Stoker winner Gwendolyn Kiste holds up a dark, queer mirror to The Great Gatsby in IN THESE GILDED, GHOSTLY HEARTS, a haunting exploration of the obsession and control at the edges of an American...


Advance Praise

“Clever, compelling, and creepy: In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts is the sapphic sequel to The Great Gatsby we have all been waiting for as fervently as Gatsby waited for Daisy.” —Johanna van Veen, bestselling author of My Darling Dreadful Thing and Blood on Her Tongue

“Gorgeous, lush and haunting in the way only Kiste knows how. The stunning and spectre-rife follow-up you never knew you needed, but won't be able to walk away from. I raise my glass.” —Laurel Hightower, author of Crossroads and The Day of the Door

"A love letter to a pink suit and an American classic, Kiste's heart-wrenching story of parentified daughters, hungry houses, and careless people names grief and longing as the ghosts that haunt the chambers of our hearts." —Tanya Pell, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Her Wicked Roots and Cicada

“Clever, compelling, and creepy: In These Gilded, Ghostly Hearts is the sapphic sequel to The Great Gatsby we have all been waiting for as fervently as Gatsby waited for Daisy.” —Johanna van Veen...


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ISBN 9781951971489
PRICE $18.00 (USD)
PAGES 176

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