Hailey Piper

New September Stories

Posted on 2024-09-26 by Hailey Piper short story

We’re finishing up September with two all-new stories in two fantastic anthologies!

First is “The Hollow Ones Weep Greasepaint.” I was immediately drawn to Fear of Clowns by its mission statement of not wanting stories about people dressing as clowns for a killing spree. Mine is a dour story about family trauma and isolation in a world where showing sympathy for clowns can lead to a terrible fate.

Next is The Darkest Night, an anthology of winter horror. It includes my grief horror tale “The Vermin Moon,” which is kind of like Willard meets Laurel Hightower’s Crossroads along with something else I won’t spoil.

Both these books are stuffed with talented authors and incredible stories.

I should have at least one more short story coming out this year in Old Moon Quarterly, so I’ll be sure to share about that once issue 7 is released. And we’re less than 3 weeks until the release of my vampire novel All the Hearts You Eat.

“Unkindly Girls” in Fears, All the Hearts You Eat in Autostraddle

A bunch of coolness out this week!

First, my story “Unkindly Girls” has returned to print in Fears, edited by Ellen Datlow. This anthology focuses on human monsters and psychological terror. 99.9% of the time, I’m at least waist-deep in the speculative, but here the horror is people.

I’ll have a couple more stories out this month, one coming on Tuesday the 17th, and one more on the 24th. Possibly another as well, but I don’t have a date on that one yet!

Off into the territory of the weird and the queer, my upcoming vampire novel All the Hearts You Eat has appeared on multiple anticipation lists!

First in Autostraddle’s “72 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out Fall 2024,” a tremendous honor alongside queerness of all genres!

Next, Bookstr including it in their “Fall Fantasty Spotlight” of 2024.

And last but not least, Book Riot included it alongside a number of fascinating-sounding queer books in their list “10 Biggest and Buzziest New Queer Books Out in Fall 2024.”

I’m so psyched to see all the excited readers, and I can’t wait to introduce you to Cape Morning and its seaside of bloodsuckers and tragedy this October 15th!

“The Majestic Art of Flesh” and “A Year in the Angel-Handed House”

Posted on 2024-08-31 by Hailey Piper queen of teeth short story

Unfortunately I’m a little behind on updating short stories here! Let’s make up for that with TWO Neon Hemlock anthologies I have stories in:

The Crawling Moon published on July 30, a book filled with queer gothic depravity by Suzan Palumbo, Donyae Coles, Caitlin Starling, myself, and many more! My tale “A Year in the Angel-Handed House” follows a couple thrown into the shadowy uncertainties of hauntings, legacies, genders, and strange futures.

And then even more recently, Embodied Exegesis released August 27, an anthology of transfem cyberpunk with stories by Maya Deane, Ryka Aoki, Jess Levine, and more!

I never thought I would return to the world of my first novel Queen of Teeth, but “The Majestic Art of Flesh” returns three years after the book and across the river from Newark, where a new business has taken root, a business of flesh. You don’t have to have read the book to read the story, though book fans will have a different perspective on the world. Maybe I’ll come back again someday! We’ll see.

Booklist review for All the Hearts You Eat

Posted on 2024-08-09 by Hailey Piper all the hearts you eat audiobook novel

All the Hearts You Eat has a glowing review in the latest Booklist! You can check it out here with an account. Becky Spratford also included the review and notes on her blog, describing my upcoming vampire novel as “operatic” and “terrifying.”

And now that it’s being shown on LibroFM and elsewhere, I’m delight to share that the audiobook will have a FULL CAST narrating the individual point of view characters, starring Jeremy Carlisle Parker, L Morgan Lee, Alexis Vandom, Sena Bryer, and Em Grosland!

All the Hearts You Eat releases on October 15th from Titan Books!

Release day: The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow

Posted on 2024-08-01 by Hailey Piper collection novella the ghostlands of natalie glasgow the possession of natalie glasgow

I said it would be soon, and I meant it: The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow is out in paperback today! Surprise!

Ghostlands returns my 2018 debut novella The Possession of Natalie Glasgow to print alongside 6 all-new connected stories, including a new novelette, following the novella’s characters and making Ghostlands an unusual story collection. Explore the Glasgow family across years and supernatural activity along with Margaret Willow, who seeks both to right the world and to find redemption for her own past.

You can find the paperback on Amazon and Barnes & Noble now, and hopefully elsewhere soon. An ebook will also be coming in the near future. Full description here:

From the imagination of Stoker-award winner, Hailey Piper, The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow is a new collection of seven interconnected stories surrounding the events of The Possession of Natalie Glasgow.

There’s no getting used to the strange. That’s the philosophy of Margaret Willow, and as a supposed expert in the supernatural, or allegedly a modern witch, she’s seen a strange thing or two, and even lived to tell about it.

But she’s never met an eleven-year-old as dangerous as Natalie Glasgow.

Ever since the death of Natalie’s father, her family has found themselves caught in a series of bizarre experiences of their own. Unexplainable, irrational, and yet all too real. Has a demon latched onto Natalie’s soul? Or are her family’s circumstances bound up in the aftermath of her dead father?

The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow collects the original 2018 Natalie Glasgow novella, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, along with six all-new interconnected stories following Margaret, Natalie, her family, and their entanglements in their haunted pasts and ghostly futures.

“[Piper’s] fiction is remarkable in its range” – Esquire

“Downright chilling.” – Rachel Harrison, USA Today Bestselling author of Cackle and Black Sheep

“Eerie and thoroughly engrossing.” – K.P. Kulski, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Fairest Flesh

“Truly original.” – Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland

Cranberry Cove audiobook release

Posted on 2024-07-30 by Hailey Piper audiobook cranberry cove novella

Cranberry Cove is out today in audio!

Narrated by Jenn Lee (narrator of audiobooks for Queen of Teeth and Cruel Angels Past Sundown), this supernatural crime novella ventures into the abandoned hotel of Cranberry Cove to uncover its sinister secrets.

Find the audio on: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, Libro.FM

Something unspeakable is happening at Cranberry Cove.

For decades, the chilling mystery within the derelict hotel has claimed those foolish and unwary enough to go inside.

Following the violent assault of a criminal kingpin’s adult son, enforcer Emberly Hale takes a dark journey into the haunted core of Cranberry Cove—and her own past—to find out the horrible truth.

“The best crossover episode of Law & Order: SVU and X-Files that you never knew you wanted and now cannot live without.”

—Booklist

“A hell of a read.”

—Cemetery Dance

“Possession No. 239 in E Major, Op. 1” and TGONG paperback cover

Posted on 2024-07-20 by Hailey Piper audiobook collection cranberry cove novella short story the ghostlands of natalie glasgow

Previously only available as a limited edition direct from the publisher, Playlist of the Damned has now released wide! Nearly 30 stories of music-based horror from cursed albums to doomed cosmic concerts. My story “Possession No. 239 in E Major, Op. 1” follows what happens when a song won’t stay stuck in your head, but wants the rest of you as well.

Also previously only a limited edition hardcover, I’m excited to share the paperback and ebook cover for The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow!

Hardcovers have been landing over the last few weeks, and the wide release should spread sometime in August.

Last but not least, haunted hotel novella Cranberry Cove is coming to audio from Tantor and the incredible Jenn Lee, who also narrated Queen of Teeth and Cruel Angels Past Sundown. That releases on July 30th, so not long from now!

Starred PW review for All the Hearts You Eat

Posted on 2024-06-30 by Hailey Piper all the hearts you eat novel

I’m a couple days late posting it here, but I’m thrilled to share that my upcoming modern Gothic/coastal vampire novel All the Hearts You Eat has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly!

“Weaving classic horror elements into a powerful tale of trans solidarity and the life-sucking toll of being forced back into the closet, Piper cements her place in the queer horror canon.”

Check out the full review here!

All the Hearts You Eat releases from Titan Books on October 15th!

Release day: Song of the Tyrant Worm

Posted on 2024-06-08 by Hailey Piper even the worm will turn New release novella song of the tyrant worm the worm and his kings

The end has come.

It began in 2020 with The Worm and His Kings, continued in 2023 with Even the Worm Will Turn, and now concludes with Song of the Tyrant Worm, out today in ebook and paperback from Off Limits Press and audiobook from Tantor and available from Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, Amazon, Libro.FM, Audiobooks.com.

Cassie Daley drew up the gorgeous cover art, depicting the Gray Maiden against eerie cosmos.

I’ve already listened to the audiobook and Allyson Voller brings the narration to a haunting close.

This has been a long journey. I could’ve never foreseen a short story I wrote and abandoned in early 2019 would become a book, and then two books, and then a trilogy. I’m ever grateful to the readers, reviewers, booksellers, and other authors who’ve taken this story of kings and gods and New York into their hearts, as well as a massively supportive publisher who’s weathered delays from me, changes of plan, and more to bring this book into the world.

Thank you all. Now to follow the Gray Maiden beneath Manhattan one last time.

“New York City, 1990: The Gray Maiden has served the almighty Worm and his faithful for her entire life. Recently that has meant abducting women off the street to find the Worm’s destined Bride, but any brutality is worth his promise of a better world to come.

Until two strangers reveal a horrifying truth—there is no future anymore. No past. Unfathomable forces have broken all sense of the world, stranding Gray in a repeating nightmare, cut off from godly promises. Her only hope is to follow these strangers out of the catastrophe, first to safety, and then to answers.

But a sinister presence lurks beyond the universe’s skin, a cosmic hunger that has haunted Gray since before she knew its name.

Time breaks and starlight dies beneath uncompromising gods in the reality-shattering conclusion to The Worm and His Kings saga.”

announcement: A Game in Yellow

Posted on 2024-05-30 by Hailey Piper a game in yellow Announcement novel

Jazzed to finally be able to share the amazing news: I’ll be joining Saga Press with my upcoming sapphic erotic cosmic horror novel A Game in Yellow! Check it out here: