Anna Dressed in Blood

Anna

Seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood hunts murderous ghosts using his dead father's athame, but when he encounters Anna—a ghost in a white dress who kills anyone who enters her house—he finds himself drawn to her and determined to free her from her curse. A YA horror-romance with genuine terror and emotional depth.

Content Ratings

High Romance

Cas and Anna develop a deep romantic connection despite the barrier of death; their relationship is emotionally central and involves intense longing; romance is complicated by her being a ghost and is resolved through sacrifice.

Intense Themes

Anna was brutally murdered and transformed into a killing curse; Cas is processing his father's death and his own destiny as a ghost hunter; themes of death, trauma, the possibility of redemption, and the cost of love are emotionally intense; the novel is genuinely dark and scary.

High Violence

Anna is a violent ghost who rips people apart graphically; Cas witnesses and causes violent ghost deaths; battles are intense and sometimes gory; violence is sustained and genuinely frightening.