Brainwyrms Audiobook

Quotes

• “Filthy, searing, and hideously intimate – a modern classic.

  — Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt

• The literary equivalent of swallowing a mouthful of maggots and liking it. Rumfitt is a master of disgust, twisting the horrors of transphobia into a hellish masterpiece, and you won’t be able to look away.

  — Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With Us

• 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 No Gods for Drowning

• 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

• Brainwyrms cements Rumfitt's reputation as horror's rising star of the dark, disgusting, and subversive. She writes with compassion and lyricism about the most fucked-up subjects, making her readers complicit in the vile and uncanny.

  — Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces

• 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