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Easily one of the strongest horror debuts in recent memory, and essential reading not only for anyone interested in horror writing, but for anyone interested in, for want of a better term, the ‘trans novel.’
— Booklist, STARRED review
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An important book, as transgressive and trans as they come.
— Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold and We Are Made of Diamond Stuff
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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
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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
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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
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Gripping, unsettling, compulsive, spicy, and, in the end, deeply moving. I loved it.
— Molly Smith, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes
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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
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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
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“A triumph of transgressive queer horror.
— Publishers Weekly, STARRED review