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Agnes, We’re Not Murderers!

by Jessica Alexander
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781968043085

Agnes is dying.

Confined to a grand manor and surrounded by velvet, silk, and suffocating expectations, she drifts through her days in a haze of illness, longing, and dreams of death. But more than death, she dreams of Mary.

Mary arrives like a fever dream.

Beautiful, unsettling, and impossible to understand, she appears beside lakes, beneath trees, and outside darkened windows. Clad in a bloodstained gown and carrying an air of mystery and menace, Mary seems to exist somewhere between woman, ghost, and nightmare. Since her arrival, the world around Agnes has begun to unravel.

Servants become feral.

The nights grow stranger.

The boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to collapse.

While Agnes finds herself increasingly drawn to the enigmatic visitor, her brother Arthur becomes obsessed with restoring order. Armed with rigid notions of purity and control, he stalks the manor’s corridors convinced that a sickness has infected their world. Yet Arthur is not alone. Across the landscape, moralists, disgraced scholars, abandoned lovers, and self-appointed guardians of decency begin gathering in pursuit of cleansing fire and absolute certainty.

As chaos spreads through moonlit cornfields, crumbling estates, and haunted memories, Agnes must confront forces far older and stranger than anyone realizes.

Atmospheric, experimental, and deeply unsettling, Agnes, We’re Not Murderers! blends gothic horror, vampire mythology, queer desire, and literary innovation into a haunting tale of obsession, transformation, and resistance against those who would erase the unknowable.

Perfect for readers who love lush gothic fiction, unconventional storytelling, and dark queer horror.