Black Helicopters (Tinfoil Dossier)

A dark jewel of a novella, this definitive edition of Caitlín R. Kiernan’s Black Helicopters is the expanded and completed version of the World Fantasy Award–nominated original. Just as the Signalman stood and faced the void in Agents of Dreamland, so it falls to Ptolema, a chess piece in her agency’s world-spanning game, to unravel what has become tangled and unknowable. Something strange is happening on the shores of New England. Something stranger still is happening to the world itself, chaos unleashed, rational explanation slipped loose from the moorings of the known. Two rival agencies stare across the Void at one another. Two sisters, the deadly, sickened products of experiments going back decades, desperately evade their hunters. An invisible war rages at the fringes of our world, with unimaginable consequences and Lovecraftian horrors that ripple centuries into the future.

The New York Times

“Kiernan’s writing ― starkly visual, tongue in cheek and disturbingly visceral ― carries the day.”

Publishers Weekly

“Kiernan's subtly haunting voice draws the reader in.”

Book Riot

“Caitlín R Kiernan is one of those writers that you can’t believe isn’t a household name. Her writing is fantastic and her stories are dark, complex and wonderful.”

Gary McMahon, author of the Concrete Grove trilogy

“Caitlín Kiernan is one of the great stylists of horror fiction, and this novella is a triumph. It bristles with energy and ideas ― ideas that seem to spill off the page ― and everything is underpinned by a sense of cosmic bleakness that took my breath away. I fell in love with the characters. The story pulled me along by the nose. I honestly didn't want it to end.”

About the Author

CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN is the author of over a dozen science fiction and dark fantasy works, including Agents of Dreamland, many comic books; and more than two hundred published short stories, novellas, and vignettes. They are also the author of scientific papers in the field of paleontology.Award wins:The International Horror Guild Award (4 times)The Barnes & Noble Maiden Voyage AwardThe James Tiptree Jr AwardThe Bram Stoker Award (twice)The Locus AwardWorld Fantasy Award (twice – both in 2014)

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