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Winter tide

Winter tide

Cosmic HorrorFantasy
Pages
366
Published
2017
Language
English

Synopsis

Two decades after the U.S. government imprisoned the people of Innsmouth, Aphra Marsh, a survivor of the camps, finds herself in 1949 without a past or future. When FBI Agent Ron Spector seeks her help to recover stolen magical secrets from Miskatonic University, Aphra must return to her ruined home. She gathers the fragments of her history and forms a new family to confront the dark politics of the Cold War and the indifferent dangers of the universe.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

DarkMysteriousGrittyAdventurous
Found FamilyReluctant HeroQuest

Genres

Cosmic Horror Fantasy Historical Fiction Urban Fantasy Alternate History

About the author

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Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys was born and raised on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, studied cognitive science at Hampshire College, and earned a PhD in cognitive psychology at Stony Brook University; she now lives in the Chesapeake Bay watershed outside Washington, DC. She writes science fiction and fantasy for Strange Horizons, Analog, and Tor.com, and is best known for the Innsmouth Legacy trilogy (The Litany of Earth, Winter Tide, and Deep Roots), which reworks Lovecraft's Deep Ones as sympathetic survivors of ge...

Characters

Aphra MarshProtagonist
Caleb MarshSupporting
Ron SpectorSupporting
CthulhuCameo
All characters in Winter tide