Crone

“There’s no hotter genre than horror, and one of the new reliables is Keith Rosson. . . . [Crone] reminds you once again how close horror writing is to great crime writing.”—Chicago Tribune

“There isnʼt a bone in your body that Keith Rossonʼs grit-and-gore–laden novels canʼt break, but Crone shatters your heart. His latest is a cinderblock of grief horror dropped right on the readerʼs chest. The brutal poetry of his prose inspires awe, and his body of work just keeps getting jacked.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and Devil Inside

“Rosson is fast becoming one of my favorite horror writers. Crone is a brilliant, heartbreaking melding of folk horror, crime novel, and crippling grief. The sorrow, the characters, the monstrosity, the folk magic . . . I want more, immediately.”—Christopher Golden, author of Carry Me to My Grave and Road of Bones

“Crone is horror with a crime novel’s pulse. In sharp prose that never flinches, Keith Rosson takes on corruption, complicity, a girl who vanished, and a terrible truth lingering in the woods. Extraordinary!”—Cynthia Pelayo, author of Children of Chicago

“Rosson has written the rare witch story that earns both its darkness and its mercy.”—Ginger Nuts of Horror

“Rosson knows how to show you a good time while having a very, very bad time.”—FanFi Addict

“Outstanding . . . Every rip of skin, crack of bone, and jagged blade is lovingly and deliciously written.”—Library Journal, starred review

“A genuinely masterful horror novel, a story about love and hate and all of their shades, with severed hearts and heads and talking radios and bile vomiting, winged creatures . . . If you only read one novel this year, let it be this one; it’s a rarity that a novel feels so achingly tender and so brutal at the same time.”—Comics Beat

“Both brutally violent and deeply moving, Crone is a novel safest for broad daylight but one you’ll keep reading into the loneliest hours.”—Irish Times

“Perfectly blending horror with gangland crime thriller, Crone is irresistible from its brilliant opening all the way to its brutal and highly moving ending. . . . you are unlikely to read many better books in 2026. Simply unmissable.”—Horror DNA

“Brutal, heartbreaking and bone crunching, Crone is a perfect read that continues Rosson’s hot streak.”—Bloody Flicks

“Brimming with brutal atmosphere and pitch-black dread, Crone is an absolute knockout of a genre hybrid. Rosson anchors skin-crawling terror in authentic human tragedy to deliver one of the most compelling horror novels of the year.”—CinemaChords

“Gory and sophisticated.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review

“If you’re looking for a nastily readable book about a bunch of dudes killing each other, Rosson has you covered. Crone is propulsive, and speeds forward like the motorcycles that dot its pages. It’s a ride. But it’s also got a point of view.”—Portland Mercury

“Full of menace and heartbreak, Crone is a lyrical meditation on loss and resilience, a story where the past refuses to stay buried and the price of truth is nothing less than a transformation.”—Lancashire Post