{"product_id":"ghostlands-by-andrew-fox","title":"Ghostlands by Andrew Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePRE-ORDER: Expected to release September 15, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMushrooming Time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancesco Helios, a groundskeeper in New Shining Capital, runs a “mower,” a seventy-ton leveling machine that keeps the Lawn free of the bloom of mushrooming monuments. Like an unruly yard, structures shove their way up through the turf: the obelisk of the Washerman Monument, the temple of “Old Frog Face,” and a thousand other stubborn relics from a half-recollected past that refuse to stay mowed down.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Francesco is mowing, a ghostly woman appears on the Lawn. Unlike other human ghosts reborn from the past, the woman recognizes Francesco. She calls him by a name he doesn’t recognize, but that resonates. Timebreaker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Francesco is catapulted to dockyards cluttered with mushrooming battleships and across the country to plains of ghostly buffalo, all with a madman on his trail who seeks to transform Francesco into a “grubber,” dedicated to the eradication of CAHSPEI—Chronologically Anomalous Human-Seeming Phenomenon (Emergent-Insubstantial)—that is, to the murder of human ghosts from the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet if the Timebreaker is real—and he is the one—then maybe even a lowly groundskeeper can save his family from ruin, himself from oblivion—and, in the process, wrench humanity from the suicidal rubber room of rebounding time his mushroom-haunted world has become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2026 Ark Prize for best novel.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Trade Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9798901160473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrim size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6 × 9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ark Press","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":53394932695329,"sku":"ARK-0473-PB","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/1550\/0321\/files\/ghostlands-passage-style-hardcover-990_8f1216ad-0736-4e03-8aca-d8e0dbb2cb70.png?v=1787814262","url":"https:\/\/ark.press\/products\/ghostlands-by-andrew-fox","provider":"Ark Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}