Sineater
Bram Stoker Award: First Novel winner (1993).
According to legend, the sineater is a dark and mysterious figure of the night, condemned to live alone in the woods. He may come out only when a death in the community occurs. As the mourners turn their backs in fear, the sineater devours food from the chests of the dead, thereby absorbing the sins of the departed and freeing the soul to enter heaven. Yet in a small mountain town, the order has been broken. The sineater has a family of his own, even though they must avert their gaze on the rare occasions he visits them. With the violated taboo comes a rash of horrifying events. But does the evil emanate from the sineater, his family, or from an even darker force?
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Elizabeth Massie
Elizabeth Massie is an American author.
Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of horror novels and short fiction. She has also written historical fiction for young adults.
Her first short horror story, "Whittler," was published in David B. Silva's The Horror Show magazine in 1984. Since then her horror fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including, among others, Best New Fantasy and Horror, Best New Horror, Splatterpunks, Inhuman Magazine, Grue, Hottest Blood, A Whisper of Blood, Kolchak the Night Stalker: Casebook, and more.
Elizabeth Massie has written books under the pseudonyms of Chris Blaine and Beth Massie.
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