Brainwyrms

A gut-churning infestation mixing extreme depravity with a hive of obsessive violence. Rumfitt consistently has her finger to the societal pulse. --Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth Brutal and terrifyingly visceral, Brainwyrms will slither inside unsuspecting readers and lay eggs there--an infection that can never be cured, a book that refuses to be ignored. --Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes Praise for Tell Me I'm Worthless A triumph of transgressive queer horror. --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review Easily one of the strongest horror debuts in recent memory. --Booklist, STARRED review A gripping, hallucinogenic haunted house novel as righteously angry as it is horrifying, Tell Me I'm Worthless unflinchingly lays bare the personal and cultural scars we wear, endure, and inflict. --Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club A lush masterpiece. Each page crackles with unnerving texture and unsettling sensation, and I felt chewed and digested by the end. Albion is the scariest haunted house since Hill House. --Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth Chilling, bone-deep horror as humane as it is hideous. Tell Me I'm Worthless is ambitious, brutal, and brilliant. --Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt An utterly harrowing experience. Like all iconic masterworks of horror fiction, Tell Me I'm Worthless rips you apart and then tenderly pieces you together until you're something entirely new. --Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke Horrifying, provocative, and empathetic yet unflinching. --Vulture This amazing work of trans fiction about houses, hauntings, and horrors is going to be the horror book everyone is discussing next year. --Book Riot Intense...Rumfitt uses body horror and the tropes of the haunted house skillfully to explore the trans experience in an England full of terfs. --CrimeReads Tell Me I'm Worthless is a defiant love letter to the lost, reminding us that win or lose, live or die, we can still save our souls by choosing love. --Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing This debut is a fantastic and disorienting take on the haunted house trope, but it is also a compelling and emotional story about trauma, fascism, and the hard truth of living an openly trans life in the 21st century. --Library Journal An important book, as transgressive and trans as they come. --Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold and We Are Made of Diamond Stuff A sharp and visceral novel which bends the horror genre to its will. Tell Me I'm Worthless holds a gruesome mirror up to the way it feels to live now. I absolutely tore through this book --Julia Armfield, author of Salt Slow and Our Wives Under the Sea Punk in every sense of the word, this is a debut unlike anything you've read before. Rumfitt's horrifying talent shrieks out from every page and rings in your ears for days. --Eliza Clark, author of Boy Parts The most startlingly original haunted house story I have read, this is intense, multi-layered and very, very creepy. --Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them Gripping, unsettling, compulsive, spicy, and, in the end, deeply moving. I loved it. --Molly Smith, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes An exquisitely terrifying journey.... Alison Rumfitt's astute observations of today's violent cultural landscape work only too well as a tale of gothic horror. But Tell Me I'm Worthless is also full of beauty, empathy and, ultimately, love. I'll never forget this book. --Frankie Miren, author of The Service A deeply affecting and sharp-eyed book, Tell Me I'm Worthless collages and distorts the horror genre to create something truly unique, vastly compelling and very, very frightening. --Alice Ash, author of Paradise Block Alison Rumfitt's superlative trans horror picks a fight with the poisonous state of modernity and fearlessly attacks it head on. Vital, thrilling, utterly alive. --Gary Budden, author of London Incognita