
Anna was not close to either her mother or Elias, and they were responsible for her death and curse.Īfter being freed by Cas, Thomas and Carmel, she came close friends with them. Her mother was to marry Elias, who would become her step-father.

In this form, her hair is dark brown.Īnna had a father who died in a storm on a lake while fishing. In this form, she allows people in her house and genuinely is alot kinder. Her veins receed and rather than floating, she has her feet firmly planted on the ground. When in this form her appearance changes her eyes are a light violet and her dress is white rather than covered in blood. In this form, her hair is pitch black, and floats as though a breeze is blowing.Īnna becomes a softer, kinder person or ghost when she enters this form.She seems more under control, but is still high alert. She easily becomes more angered and enraged, usually taking out all of it on the people who entered her home. Her eyes become black and oily and her entire body becomes covered in black veins spawning form her neck and arms. Her dress is covered in blood, dripping onto the floor as she moves. This form only appears when too many people or anyone aside from Cas, enter her house. One of NPR's Top 5 Young Adult Novels of 2011.Anna takes two forms her normal, humanly form and her cursed form.Īnna's attitude and significance change dramatically when she is in her cursed form. Kendare Blake's Anna Dressed in Blood is a 2011 Kirkus Best Teen Books of the Year title. Since her death, Anna has killed any and every person who has dared to step into the deserted Victorian she used to call home. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping with blood. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before.

Searching for a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas expects the usual: track, hunt, kill. They follow legends and local lore, destroy the murderous dead, and keep pesky things like the future and friends at bay. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.
