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Book cover of She Said Destroy

Andy Davidson Author Of The Hollow Kind

From my list on horror writers who arenā€™t Stephen King.

Why am I passionate about this?

As a writer who grew up on a steady diet of horrorā€”from Dean Koontz to Peter Straub to Stephen Kingā€”I never knew what amazing diversity there actually was in the genre, until I became a horror writer myself! In the last few years, Iā€™ve met an incredible range of talented writers whose books are sometimes overshadowed on the horror shelves by a certain King, and I think itā€™s high time we all knew more about these hardworking, creative, and gifted authors. So if you read horror and are hungry for new books by writers whose work you may not know, here are five incredible voices to whisper tales of terror in your ear.

Andy's book list on horror writers who arenā€™t Stephen King

Andy Davidson Why did Andy love this book?

She Said Destroy is a mind-bending, award-nominated collection of short stories that speak to the horrors of home, childhood, and family. Itā€™s the kind of stuff I wish I could write! Theyā€™re fantastical, haunting, unabashedly political, and heartbreakingly beautiful. Bulkinā€™s among the vanguard of new and emerging voices in horror. In my favorite story from the bunch, a final girl tames a dragon!

By Nadia Bulkin,

Why should I read it?

1 author picked She Said Destroy as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.

What is this book about?

A dictator craves love--and horrifying sacrifice--from his subjects; a mother raised in a decaying warren fights to reclaim her stolen daughter; a ghost haunts a luxury hotel in a bloodstained land; a new babysitter uncovers a family curse; a final girl confronts a broken-winged monster...

Word Horde presents the debut collection from critically-acclaimed Weird Fiction author Nadia Bulkin. Dreamlike, poignant, and unabashedly socio-political, She Said Destroy includes three stories nominated for the Shirley Jackson Award, four included in Year's Best anthologies, and one original tale.


Book cover of She Said Destroy

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