{"product_id":"the-thirteenth-chair-paperback","title":"The Thirteenth Chair - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlaric Graveheart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSascha Berninger\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLondon. November, 1888. The Ripper is done with his work, and the city is learning to breathe again - badly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 13 separate corners of the city, a red envelope appears. Propped against a breakfast plate. Pressed into a gloved palm on a crowded omnibus. Slipped beneath a door by a hand no servant will admit to. Each envelope contains a single ivory card, printed in crimson: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou are invited to dine at Blackthorn House, 9 Vellum Lane, Whitechapel. Your presence is not merely requested. It is required.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVellum Lane does not appear on any map. Blackthorn House should not exist. And their hostess - the devastating, absolute Madame Calvaire - is not a woman in any sense that the word can comfortably hold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is Death. Wearing flesh for one evening. Curious, as she always is, about the living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13 guests take their seats. They do not know one another. They do not know, yet, why they have been chosen. They know only that the invitation came, that something in them answered it, and that only 1 of them will leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat they choose to do with the hours between the soup course and the dawn will determine which of them that is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Thirteenth Chair is a fever-lit, merciless, and strangely beautiful novel about guilt, the weight of the unconfessed, and the singular price of being - in the eyes of something eternal - genuinely interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has set 13 places. She needs only 12.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.32 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 13, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67564024824057,"sku":"9781918589061","price":38.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Fspz0zNeOb9781918589061.webp?v=1793508679","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-thirteenth-chair-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}