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A debut small-town horror novel that is a chilling blend of Shirley Jackson meets Devil’s Day by way of Westworld
When Lady Mae turns eighteen, she’ll inherit her mother’s ghastly job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five’s guilty criminals as payment for their petty crimes. But then their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae’s house, and there in the living room they murder her mother for refusing to butcher a child.
Within twenty-four hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her gruesome job. But a chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy that murdered her mother. Now Lady Mae must choose: Will she flee and start another life in the desolate mountains, forever running? Or will she seek vengeance for her mother’s death even if it kills her?
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“A brutal coming-of-age story…It’s true horror lies not in monsters or supernatural threats but in the depravity of humanity itself and what happens when a society gleefully pits the least among us against one another to survive.”
— Paste
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“The Butcher is being described as Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go meets West World. Pretty wild combination, but it works!”
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"This is possibly the best prose, the most readable book, that I have encountered this year; also the most powerful setting and the most troubled, perhaps damaged characters that I have read recently.”
— British Fantasy Society Review -
“Immersive, original, and unflinching.”
— Rachel Harrison, author of Such Sharp Teeth -
“Intelligent, immersive horror.”
— Ally Wilkes, author of All the White Spaces -
“Psychologically claustrophobic, and a harrowing debut.”
— Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth -
“Savage beauty, unrelenting violence, and unbreakable love crash together in this powerful and hypnotic novel.”
— Livia Llewellyn, author of Furnace
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About Laura Kat Young
Laura Kat Young is a teacher and writer whose works blend genres and seek to explore a deeper understanding of human behavior. She was the 2019-2021 writer-in-residence at the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and her works have appeared in The Blood Pudding, Shoreline of Infinity, The Lindenwood Review, and others. Find out more at LauraKatYoung.com.
About Amanda Dolan
Amanda Dolan is a professional actor in the MFA program at Brown University. Her credits include Richard III, Macbeth, Falsettos, The Rocky Horror Show, Hair, and The Who’s Tommy.