Remarkable…a twisted little miracle.

—Megan Abbott

 

At the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge for all the wrongs he has suffered. With the help of three alienated neighborhood kids, he plans to hide razor blades, poison, drugs, and broken glass in Halloween candy.

 

But as the clock ticks closer to sundown, will one of his helpers—an innocent himself, in his own streetwise way—carry out or defeat the plan?

Based on an original idea by Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus, The Shape of Water has been developed from the ground up as a bold two-tiered release—one story interpreted by two artists in the independent mediums of film and literature.

 

The book features illustrations by visual artist James Jean, and weaves fantasy, fable, and romance to create a tale that is equally gripping on the page as it is on the big screen.

 

A New York Times Best Seller

A multilayered novel … a gruesome, dark, and weighty story that never obscures the fact that the main character is, indeed, a monster.

—VOYA

Finch’s fancy vocabulary and occasionally affected formality never obscure his interior monster. A grisly reflection on human nature.

—Kirkus Reviews

A brilliantly uncomfortable place for readers to spend almost 800 pages.

—BCCB

Utterly riveting—Grade: A. (One of the Top 10 Books of 2015)

—Entertainment Weekly

A splendidly rendered, macabre picaresque—muscular and tender, imaginative and grotesque, cynical yet deeply moving.

—Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

Retains a sheen of elegance even as it repulses readers with macabre imagery.

—Kirkus Reviews

Del Toro and Kraus have deftly forged a thrilling, nightmare-inducing, monstrous world that’s just as dangerous as the trials and tribulations of middle school.

— Tony DiTerlizzi, The Spiderwick Chronicles

A thrilling, bloody, twisted, weirdo blockbuster of a book.

— The Globe and Mail

The demon offspring of Stephen King’s The Shining and Hitchcock’s Psycho.

— Michael Grant

Daniel Kraus writes raw and deft and dangerous. Consider yourself warned.

— Adele Griffin

A memorably brutal assault on the senses, not for the fainthearted or delicate.

— Publishers Weekly

A NEW HORROR CLASSIC.

— Fangoria

Uncompromising, dark, and true.

— Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan

A cerebral romp through a fascinating, revolting underworld.

— Kirkus Reviews

Utterly unique from the very first line.

— Joshua Ferris

Beneath the terror and the thrills, there is *truth* in this haunting tale.  It pierced my heart straight through.

— Lauren Myracle

A chilling, enthralling, and poignant look at the bridge to adulthood.

— San Francisco Book Review