When it’s dark, don’t let go.

There are other roads. Don’t follow them.

[lucygallows]

So, I just finished These Fleeting Shadows and it didn't have any mention of Dr. Ashford, so does it not connect to Rules for Vanishing and Our Last Echoes? That's fine, I just want to make sure I'm not missing any information, because these books are so intense!

I still need to read Thirteens!

Oh, hey, someone found me. Hello! I also just finished These Fleeting Shadows, literally yesteday (what'd you think!!!)

Yes, KAM has been writing like, a ridiculous number of books at a time. Harrow came out this year and then the 3rd book for Thirteens came out (they're really cute, but the Ashford connection is definitely minimal) She has two books coming out next year: an adult horror novel, What Lies in the Woods, and The Narrow.

If I'm remembering right, the end of Echoes sets it up like the next Ashford book is about Abby going back to her family's home? The premise of The Narrow does not relate to that so I'm not sure that that is going to be an Ashford book either. I guess we'll have to wait for someone to ask Kate or for a preview to come out which will maybe probably give us enough to figure out if it is the found footage kind of format of the other two.

[lucygallows]

👀 👀 👀 👀 👀

[septembersghost]

Our Last Echoes - Kate Alice Marshall

[mysone]

"Don’t leave the road. When it’s dark, don’t let go. There are other roads. Don’t follow them."

Rules For Vanishing - Kate Alice Marshall

[mintmutationx3]

okay i need book recs

i mostly read YA horror, tacky i know but it's just the right amount of scary so like deal with it i guess?

I really enjoyed rules for vanishing, what big teeth, none shall sleep, sawkill girls, and the dark descent of elizabeth frankenstein. these are like my top books i've read in the last year, except for maybe none shall sleep because it was insanely disturbing like genuinely depraved shit, freaked me the fuck out, but also ten out of ten so if depraved is fine by you i def recommend it. anyway if you read any of these and have similar books i'd love recs like seriously you'd be doing me a huge favor. bye fam

[lucygallows]

Mindy McGinnis’ Initial Insult is phenomenal. If possible, I would recommend just going into it without looking at any synopsis. I got the audiobook from the libby app and I think I listened to it in one sitting, which I have only ever done with rules for vanishing otherwise.

Also not YA but Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson is legitimately my favorite book. I gets in your head and under your skin, it’s beautiful.

[pussreboots]

“You kill a person by stopping their heart. You kill a road by stopping its purpose.”

— Grace Winters in Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall (2019) p. 217

[susiephone]

I just read Thirteens by Kate Alice Marshall in one day and HOLY SHIT. The sequel just came out and I'm gonna get it next time I get paid.

This book has everything.

Vanishing children. Spooky fairy tales. Palindromes. Small town with secrets. BFFs fighting scary stuff together.

[lucygallows]

Excellent news for you! Not ONLY is the Thirteens sequel out and fabulous but these books take place in the same world as two of her horror novels, Rules for Vanishing and Our Last Echoes. 

We’ve got vanishing teens, urban legends, unreliable narrators, little Andy Ashford all grown up, more doors to more worlds, more rules to more magic

[lucygallows]

Kate Alice Marshall’s Rules for Vanishing draws on some Breton folklore in its world building. This is a painting of Dahut, princess of Cornouaille, and her father King Gradlon escaping from Ys, its drowned capitol.

I got really wrapped up reading Rules for Vanishing, what, two years ago? Three? There’s many details and thought and care in the way it’s laid out. I was so offended that there isn’t a wiki for the world when I was reading Our Last Echoes that I’m trying to seed one.

Come look! Add your own stuff! Make it big!

ashford-files.fandom.com

[lucygallows]

Wanted: Literally anyone else to work on this wiki with me

https://ashford-files.fandom.com

Help me track the places, people, ideas and weird details in Kate Alice Marshall’s books