Anna Dressed in Blood (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Anna Korlov: Ghost. Beautiful. Sad. So likeable. Not like regular ghosts, she's much more powerful and more aware. Source of her power is unknown but somehow tied to the manner of her death.
• Theseus Cassio Lowood: Cas Lowood is the narrator. Hero. He is a cocky but charming 17-year-old boy who travels the world, slaying ghosts and other demonic creatures, just like his father before him. He is accompanied by his witch mother and their cat. Smart and resourceful.
• Mrs. Lowood: Mrs. Lowood is Cas' mother. She is a practicing Wiccan who uses her spells to protect her son on his ghost hunts. She wishes Cas would take more of an interest in normal teen activities, such as hanging out with friends and applying to colleges, but she understands that ghost hunting is the family business.
• Mr. Lowood: Mr. Lowood is Cas' deceased father, who was killed and munched on while attempting to exterminate a ghost.
• Tybalt: Tybalt is the Lowoods' half-Siamese cat. Mrs. Lowood named him after a character in William Shakespeare's tragic play "Romeo and Juliet." Like many animals, Tybalt can sense ghosts. Finicky and prefers Cass's mother.
• Thomas Sabin: aka Doubting Thomas; Thomas Sabin is Cas' friend and Morfran's grandson. He has telepathic abilities, and he is a budding male witch. Nerdy and sensitive.
• Morfran Starling Sabin: Morfran Starling Sabin is Thomas Sabin's grandfather. Like his grandson, he is a male witch, and he claims to be linked to the dead. He owns an antique store.
• Carmel Jones: Carmel Jones is the beautiful and popular "queen bee" of Sir Winston Churchill High School. Unlike most queen bees, she is kind toward her fellow students.
• Mike Andover: Mike Andover is Carmel Jones' territorial ex-boyfriend. He is a member of Sir Winston Churchill High School's wrestling team. His friends include Will Rosenberg, Simon Parry, and Chase Putnam. Typical angry selfish jock.
• Daisy Bristol: Daisy Bristol is Cas' contact who resides in New Orleans. He tips off Cas when he hears about murderous spirits, always in a very theatrical way. Daisy, a man in his mid-twenties, is described as a "hard-core goth kid" who is "skinny" and "pale as a vampire" and "wears way too much mesh."
• Gideon Palmer: Gideon Palmer is Cas' surrogate father who lives in England. He was a friend of Cas' father. A fount of knowledge on all things supernatural.

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• “I watch him with amusement. There's a blue light special on territorial jocks in aisle four.”

  Theseus Cassio Lowood

• “I peek over the back of the couch and there she is, my goddess of death, her hair snaking out in a great black cloud, her teeth grinding hard enough to make living gums bleed.”

  Theseus Cassio Lowood

• “Yes. Smashing. You'll be just like those four chaps in the movie. You know the one, with the oversized marshmallow.”

  Gideon Palmer

• “But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I'm a psychiatrist's wet dream.”

  Theseus Cassio Lowood

• “I live dangerously enough. Now what's this about condoms or tigers?”

  Theseus Cassio Lowood

• “'Driving into unmoving clouds,' she whispers. 'Things are going to take longer than you expect'”

  Mrs. Lowood

• “But hey, at least we'll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I am a psychiatrists wet dream.”

  Theseus Cassio Lowood

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• I’ve seen most of what there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell you the truth, the worst of them are the ones that make you afraid in the light. The things that your eyes see plainly and can’t forget are worse than huddled black figures left to the imagination. Imagination has a poor memory; it slinks away and goes blurry. Eyes remember for much longer.

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• Over the course of my life I’ve been to lots of places. Shadowed places where things have gone wrong. Sinister places where things still are. I always hate the sunlit towns, full of newly built developments with double-car garages in shades of pale eggshell, surrounded by green lawns and dotted with laughing children. Those towns aren’t any less haunted than the others. They’re just better liars. I like it more to come to a place like this, where the scent of death is carried to you on every seventh breath.

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• shutters hanging crooked on their windows so they look like wounded eyes.

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• But hey, at least we’ll have this strange story to tell, love and death and blood and daddy-issues. And holy crap, I am a psychiatrist’s wet dream.

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• By the sound of our scrambling feet you would have thought a family of hypoglycemic golden retrievers was moving in.

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• I find a ghost with the strength of a storm, black eyes, and pale hands, not a dead person at all but a dead goddess. Persephone back from Hades, or Hecate half-decayed.

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• Thunder Bay, Ontario, is our destination. I’m going there to kill her. Anna. Anna Korlov. Anna Dressed in Blood.

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• “Don’t be afraid of the dark, Cas. But don’t let them tell you that everything that’s there in the dark is also there in the light. It isn’t.”

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• “Yes. Smashing. You’ll be just like those four chaps in the movie. You know the one, with the oversized marshmallow.” You’ve got to be kidding me.

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• signs that look like Charlie Brown’s t-shirt, and others proclaiming that apparently a moose is going to attack the car.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Girl of Nightmares.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kendare Blake (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• Cybils Award (2011: Fantasy & Science Fiction, Nominee)
• YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Readers (2012)
• YALSA Best Books for Young Adults (2012)

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• Library of Congress: PZ7.B5566 Ann 2011
• Dewey: <Fic> 23

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"Anna Dressed in Blood" is a thrilling novel, but it is not for the faint of heart. It contains gory violence, an episode of teenage drinking, and several instances of foul language.

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• Books › Teens › Literature & Fiction › Love & Romance
• Books › Teens › Horror
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Ghosts