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Dead First

Dead First
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Dead First Hardback - 2026

by Compton, Johnny

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  • Title Dead First
  • Author Compton, Johnny
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Publication date 2026
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9780593854310
  • ISBN 9780593854310 / 0593854314
  • Category Fiction - Horror
  • Library of Congress subjects Horror fiction, Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2025029234
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 2
  • Bookseller catalogues New Books; Horror In Stock

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From the publisher

From the Bram Stoker award-nominated author of The Spite House comes a bone-chilling new novel about a private investigator hired by a mysterious billionaire to discover why he can't die.

When private investigator Shyla Sinclair is invited to the looming mansion of eccentric billionaire Saxton Braith, she's more than a little suspicious. The last thing she expects to see that night is Braith's assistant driving an iron rod straight through the back of his skull. Scratch that--the last thing she expects to see is Braith's resurrection afterward.

Braith can't die, it turns out, but he has no explanation for his immortality, and very few intact memories of his past. Which is why he wants to pay Shyla millions to investigate him, and bring his long-buried history to light.

Shyla can't help but be intrigued, but she's also trapped by the offer. Braith has made it clear that he knows she's the only person he can trust with his secret, because he knows all about hers.

Bold, atmospheric, and utterly frightening, Johnny Compton's Dead First is spine-chilling supernatural horror about the pursuit of power and the undying need for reckoning.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2026, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 01/01/2026, Page 44
  • Publishers Weekly, 12/08/2025, Page 0

About the author

Johnny Compton is the author of The Spite House, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker award, and Devils Kill Devils. His short stories have appeared in Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, The No Sleep Podcast and several other publications. His fascination with frightening fiction started when he was introduced to the ghost story "The Golden Arm" as a child.

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