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Miscellaneous
05 August 2025
One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin.

A cursed film. A haunted past. A deadly secret.

The Baroness, an infamous exploitation film long thought destroyed by Nazi fire, is discovered fifty years later. When lonely archivist Ellen Kramer--deeply closeted and pathologically repressed--begins restoring the hedonistic movie, it unspools dark desires from deep within her.

As Ellen is consumed by visions and voices, she becomes convinced the movie is real, and is happening to her--and that frame by frame, she is unleashing its occult horrors on the world. Her life quickly begins to spiral out of control.

Until it all fades to black, and all that remains is a voice asking a question Ellen can't answer but can't get out of her mind.

Do you want it? More than anything?

Also by Gretchen Felker-Martin:

Manhunt Cuckoo
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Imprint:   Miscellaneous
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   454g
ISBN:   9781250348012
ISBN 10:   1250348013
Pages:   208
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

GRETCHEN FELKER-MARTIN is a Massachusetts-based bestselling horror author and film critic. Her debut novel, Manhunt, was named the #1 Best Book of 2022 by Vulture, and was one of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 by Esquire, Library Journal, and Paste. Her sophomore novel, Cuckoo, debuted on the USA Today bestseller list. You can read her fiction and film criticism on Patreon and in TIME, The Outline, Nylon, and more.

Reviews for Black Flame

Praise for Black Flame ""Nasty, erotic, kinky, vicious, suspenseful....Felker-Martin uses the trope of the cursed movie and creates something utterly unique that manages to horrify, beguile, and empower in equal measure. If you are going to read one horror book this year, make it this one."" --JOHANNA VAN VEEN, author of My Darling Dreadful Thing Praise for Gretchen Felker-Martin ""Cuckoo is, like Felker-Martin's previous novel Manhunt, absolutely masterful."" --ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of The Bad Feminist ""Manhunt is a modern horror masterpiece."" --CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, author of National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties ""With [Cuckoo], Felker-Martin appoints herself the new High Priestess of splatter....A story of love, hate, and sacrifice that spares no suffering, but takes no pity."" --TONY TULATHIMUTTE, author of National Book Award finalist Rejection ""Disgustingly rendered and brilliantly imagined.... A fresh, stomach-turning take on gendered apocalypse."" --NPR on Manhunt ""Cuckoo is a breathtaking novel of body horror; a heartbreaking, angry, terrifying, unflinching indictment of Christian America's cruelty; and it's a soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing."" --PAUL TREMBLAY, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie ""A grisly, gory, glorious work of splatterpunk social horror -- and the perfect introduction to both subgenres."" --BUSTLE on Manhunt ""Tense and frighteningly visceral, Cuckoo is a masterwork of body horror thrumming with high octane viciousness."" --ERIC LAROCCA, author of At Dark, I Become Loathsome ""Felker-Martin can write: Manhunt expertly drops one political target after another, breaks your heart with nearly every character, and keeps up a relentless velocity-- all while just being plain fun as hell."" --TORREY PETERS, PEN/Hemingway Award winning author of Detransition, Baby


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