Daniel Kraus, Author . Delacorte $16.99 (245p) ISBN 978-0-385-73733-3
Kraus's stark debut never quite feels completely comfortable in its own skin, but still delivers a moving story and points to a huge amount of potential for the author. When the summer begins with two accidents in which children are hit by a...
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Daniel Kraus, Delacorte, $16.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-385-73857-6
Kraus's (The Monster Variations) sophomore novel is a gruesome and meandering work that saps the life (so to speak) out of a potentially fascinating subject. When 16-year-old Joey's mother is killed by a bus, he's sent to live with Ken Harnett, his...
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Daniel Kraus. Delacorte, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-74309-9
No stranger to dark and disturbing stories, Kraus (Rotters) continues to push the envelope with this hallucinatory, dread-soaked tale set in 1981. Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke lives with his mother and sister on a dying Iowa farm, still haunted by the
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Daniel Kraus. Simon & Schuster, $18.99 (656p) ISBN 978-1-4814-1139-4
In this morbidly fascinating story, first in a two-book saga about a young man who refuses to stay dead, Kraus (Scowler) deconstructs the idea of the bildungsroman. Zebulon Finch is born in Chicago in 1879, murdered in 1896, and inexplicably...
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Daniel Kraus, read by Kirby Heyborne. Listening Library, unabridged, 13 CDs, 16.5 hrs., $55 ISBN 978-0-449-01495-0
When his mother dies, 16-year-old Joey Crouch is sent to a small town in Iowa to live with the father he has never known. Initially unwelcomed by his dad, the displaced boy suffers bullying from both classmates and teachers—but before too long...
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Daniel Kraus, read by Kirby Heyborne. Listening Library, unabridged, nine CDs, 11.5 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-0-385-36835-3
In Kraus’s novel set in 1981, 19-year-old protagonist Ry Burke is living with his mother and sister on their eroding Iowa farm when a meteorite shower falls on the nearby prison, freeing Ry’s criminally abusive father. The return of his near-demonic
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George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus. Tor, $27.99 (656p) ISBN 978-1-250-30512-1
Filmmaker Romero (1940–2017), best known for Night of the Living Dead, offers a sweeping look at the rise, fall, and rebirth of humanity in the face of a zombie menace in this long-winded horror novel, posthumously completed by Kraus (Bent Heavens).
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George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus. Union Square, $18.99 trade paper (328p) ISBN 978-1-4549-5089-9
Kraus’s second attempt at completing an unfinished novel from horror master Romero (1940–2017), after The Living Dead, is a dud; the plot, about a boogeyman targeting children in the Louisiana bayou, is familiar, and lackluster prose and thin...
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Daniel Kraus. Hard Case Crime, $9.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-78909-193-9
When kids come trick-or-treating down Yellow Street, the disgruntled, slovenly Robbie Glinton intends to lace the Halloween candy with poison and razor blades in this meandering excursion into hoarder noir from Kraus (The Shape of Water with...
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Daniel Kraus. Holt, $17.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-15167-4
Almost three years before this novel’s start, high school senior Liv Fleming’s father, Lee, a beloved high school English teacher, disappeared for four days. Eight months after he reappeared, naked and staggering in the town square of Bloughton,...
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Daniel Kraus. MTV, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-66591-816-9
This gripping sci-fi thriller from bestseller Kraus (who previously coauthored the novelization of The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Torro) takes readers quite literally into the belly of the beast. After local diving legend Mitt Gardiner dies...
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Daniel Kraus. Atria, $28.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-6680-6845-8
Kraus (Whale Fall) delivers a vivid tale, composed of a single sentence, about an angel’s appearance on a French battlefield near the end of WWI. American infantryman and card sharp Cyril Bagger is ordered by ambitious Major General Reis to...
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Daniel Kraus, illus. by Rovina Cai. Holt, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-22440-8
The life of a Furrington Teddy ought to be simple: wait patiently in one’s box until purchased and presented to a child, resulting, upon the “child’s first loving hug” in the fabled Forever Sleep. When blue teddy Buddy awakens frightened and...
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Daniel Kraus and Chris Shehan. Vault, $19.99 trade paper (232p) ISBN 978-1-939424-79-2
Kraus (The Shape of Water) and newcomer Shehan weave a creepy horror tale from the threads of past sins in a small town where malevolent forces lurk behind a picturesque facade. Kat Somerville’s mother sent her away when she was nine years old....
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Lisi Harrison and Daniel Kraus. Union Square Kids, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4454-6
An infamous killer targets a quartet of tweens in this ghost story–centered novel by Harrison (the Pack series) and Kraus (the Teddies Saga). A century ago, Misery Falls, Ore., PE teacher Silas Hoke, a former Marine with a wooden leg, was sentenced...
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Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus. Union Square & Co, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4549-4522-2
Bestsellers Moalem (The Better Half) and Kraus (The Shape of Water) explore the implications of genomic editing and animal rights in this uneven near-future thriller. Charismatic Noah Goff founded EditedPets to enhance the relationship between pets...
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