Judging books by their covers 1

Just want to share some books whose covers I love! Once every 4 weeks, I'll post 4 books and super short synopses of books whose covers catch my eye.

1. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and  Theodore C. Van Alst (Vintage, 2023): These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge.
2. Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials by Marilynne K. Roach (Da Capo Press, 2013): The story of the Salem Witch Trials told through the lives of six women. You can read my quick review of this title here.
3. Mort(e) by Robert Repino (Soho Press, 2015): After the “war with no name” a cat assassin searches for his lost love in Repino’s strange, moving sci-fi epic.
4. Monstress Volume 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu (Author) and Sana Takeda (Artist) (Image Comics, 2016): Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, Monstress tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers.