Cover design by Alan Lastufka.

To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place

“Truly, this is emotional, high-stakes horror at its finest. Humble’s character work has changed the game.”
Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Awards® nominated author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered

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Publication Date

July 15, 2025

Print Length

48,168 Words

ISBN

978-1-959565-68-0 (Paperback)
978-1-959565-69-7 (eBook)

MSRP

$19.99 (Paperback)
$4.99 (eBook)

About To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place

When Ashley Sutliff receives word from his brother Willow that their father is deathly ill, he leaves behind his life as a gambler in St. Louis and returns home — burdened with regret and the weight of old wounds. Two years away couldn’t erase the damage he left behind, and now Ashley must face the fractured ties that once held his family together. With their father fading, Ashley learns of a promise his father made years earlier — a debt owed to the mysterious Peregrine Estate. Dedicated to preventing a bloody war between rival werewolf packs in the Little Kansas Barony, the Peregrine Estate calls on Ashley, Willow, and their brother Ellery to help fulfill that long-standing promise.

A sharp, deeply moving story told in rich, evocative prose, To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place is a stirring novel. The first novel in the Peregrine Estate Trilogy, a tale exploring duty, forgiveness, and the danger of waiting too long to say what matters most.

Praise

“Humble is, put simply, one of the greatest writers of our time. A heart wrenching story about the gambles we take and how we pay what is owed, To Carry A Body to Its Resting Place is him at his best.”
Rae Wilde, Author of Merciless Waters and I Can Fix Her

“TO CARRY A BODY TO ITS RESTING PLACE is sharp, sarcastic in its humour, with the perfect amount of flourish. Through gorgeous descriptions, Humble explores a complex and fractured family, the fragile bonds between fathers and sons, the unbreakable love between a mother and her children, where blood runs thicker and deeper than time and distance. A supernatural western that teaches readers the definition of filial piety, duty, and the true values that one should hold dear in their life with the resounding message: do not save our regrets, love, and apologies for the dead but rather voice them to those still alive.”
Ai Jiang, Bram Stoker and Nebula award-winning author of LINGHUN

 

To Carry a Body to Its Resting Place News
March 3, 2025
Today we are revealing the covers for C.S. Humble’s The Peregrine Estate trilogy! The Peregrine Estate trilogy is the exciting new prequel series to C.S. Humble’s That Light Sublime trilogy…
October 28, 2024
Our SUMMER OF C.S. just doubled in size! Today we are announcing that we’ve acquired the rights to C.S. Humble’s THAT LIGHT SUBLIME Trilogy and will release our editions in June 2025, before we release the new PEREGRINE ESTATE Trilogy…
February 21, 2024
Today we are announcing a new three-book deal for The Peregrine Estate Trilogy by C.S. Humble. This new trilogy of self-contained prequel novellas consists of…
About the Author

C.S. Humble is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. He is the author of the Black Wells series and the That Light Sublime western horror trilogy. He lives in Houston, Texas.

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About the Series

A new trilogy from C.S. Humble in the That Light Sublime universe.

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