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Teenage Girls Can Be Demons in Publishers Weekly

Thrilled to share that my new coming-of-age horror collection Teenage Girls Can Be Demons has a new and glowing review in Publishers Weekly!

“The diverse cast of heroines and genuinely chilling scares make this a winner for anyone looking for feminist horror that is weird, surreal, and driven by more than a touch of rebellion.”

The review also gives shout-outs to “Why We Keep Exploding,” “Unkindly Girls,” and “Thagomizer,” “Last Leaf of an Ursine Tree,” “The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone,” and the Blackwood Devil himself, “Benny Rose the Cannibal King.”

More good news to come with these 13 coming-of-rage stories.

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons today!

cover art of Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, showing a girl turning into a demon, plus a quote by Adam Cesare saying "Harrowing, scary, and raw ... terrific."

art by Julia Lloyd

Release day is here for Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, my new collection from Titan Books!

It’s been a wonderful journey for this book, gathering up some of my most popular stories like “Unkindly Girls” and “The Turning” with brand-new ones like “The Long Flesh of the Law” and “The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone,” and of course the return to print my ’80s coming-of-age slasher, “Benny Rose the Cannibal King” just in time for Halloween season.

Available from: Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, A Room of One’s Own, Politics and Prose, Waterstones, Amazon, Penguin Random House

“A fierce collection of women-centered horror that explores the different ways in which girlhood and growing up can be terrifying but also empowering.”

Library Journal (starred review)

Featured in Paste Magazine’s “The Most Anticipated Horror Books of Fall 2025” and Autostraddle’s “Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for September 2025”.

13 coming-of-rage stories the way only Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper can tell them—wildly inventive, brilliantly imaginative, and completely and utterly enthralling.

A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in “Why We Keep Exploding”; across the world, something is mutating adolescents into bizarre creatures in “The Turning”; a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in “The Long Flesh of the Law”; and in the acclaimed novella “Benny Rose, the Cannibal King”, a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world.

These stories take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you’ll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.

 

Full contents:

Why We Keep Exploding

Unkindly Girls

The Long Flesh of the Law

Thagomizer

Without a Face

Last Leaf of an Ursine Tree

Hopscotch for Keeps

Magical Girls Child Crusader Squad

Autotomy

The Turning

We Who Hold the Median

The Many Sins of Clara Greenstone

Benny Rose the Cannibal King

 

“With stories that run the gamut from rollicking and brutal to emotional and devastating, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is sure to be a standout collection in 2025. Check out this fabulous and fearsome book as soon as you can.”

– Gwendolyn Kiste, three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and The Haunting of Velkwood

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is Hailey Piper at her best. In a publishing world where the novel reigns supreme, here a collection is the only way to really get to know the multiplicity of Piper’s work. Harrowing, scary, and raw, most often all in the same story, with topics that range from the surreal, to the nostalgic, to the all-too-real. Terrific.”

– Adam Cesare, Bram Stoker Award-winning and USA Today Bestselling author of Clown in a Cornfield

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons simmers and crackles with rage. More than just a dark and fantastic collection, these stories are a guide for survival and fighting back against a world intent on doing harm.”

– A.C. Wise, Nebula Finalist, author of The Ghost Sequences

“Powerful, wickedly clever, and deeply intimate, Hailey Piper delivers a searing and entertaining anthology that speaks to the female rage of becoming. Delightfully and thoughtfully drawn.”

– Dawn Kurtagich, author of The Thorns

“With a delicious focus on rage and transformation, Hailey Piper’s second collection offers up tales that are as bold as they are beautiful. From societal pressures to complex and intimate bonds, Piper’s stories explore multifaceted characters who are unafraid to be loud and vicious. There is a refreshing grittiness to these stories where characters deal with some of life’s harshest lessons. Piper’s ability to dive into the gooey substance that makes humans both fascinating and horrifying is such a marvelous strength. A demonically good time that you don’t want to miss!”

– Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil’s Dreamland

“Nobody writes grounded cosmic horror like Hailey Piper. That might seem like a contradiction in terms, but read these thirteen wild—and wildly different—tales and get a taste of just how Piper can twist you into otherworldly shapes while still reminding you of your essential, heartbreaking humanity.”

– Nat Cassidy, bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary

 

Praise for novella “Benny Rose the Cannibal King” (included in this collection)

“[Piper] knows the slasher well enough to do something new and cool with it. Couldn’t have had a better time.”

– Stephen Graham Jones, NYT-Bestselling author of My Heart Is a Chainsaw

I see your slumber party massacre and raise you a taste of human tragedy, a funhouse ride of plot twists, and a heaping side of gore. Hailey Piper has the audacity to write teenage mean girls as thinking, feeling, bad-ass human beings.

– Joe Koch, Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Couvade and Convulsive

A good urban legend has a way of seeping into your bones and refusing to crawl out; Hailey Piper’s Cannibal King is certainly one of those that will be creeping into my mind, late at night and unbidden, for a long time to come. Benny Rose is an unforgettable terror, rivaled only by the gutsy teens who dare to go up against him.

– Claire Holland, author of I Am Not Your Final Girl

 

“Crepuscular” in Roots of My Fears

cover of Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror, edited by Gemma Amor, featuring stories by Gabino Iglesias, Nuzo Onoh, Hailey Piper, Ramsey Campbell, Premee Mohamed, and more.It’s release day for Roots of My Fears: Terrifying Stories of Ancestral Horror!

I’m honored to be on this stellar table of contents with the long-awaited return to print of my short story “Crepuscular,” about a family trying to find the cure for their daughter’s ailment, only to realize truths about where they’ve gone and what’s really happening to her.

The anthology is stuffed with excellent familial horror, so check it out!

Also, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons releases in one week, and I’m psyched to see it appear in Autostraddle’s “Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for September 2025” along with many wonderful queer books out this month, and in Paste Magazine’s “The Most Anticipated Horror Books of Fall 2025.”

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, LJ starred review

Thrilled to share that my upcoming collection Teenage Girls Can Be Demons has received a starred review in Library Journal!

“A fierce collection of women-centered horror that explores the different ways in which girlhood and growing up can be terrifying but also empowering.”

Check out the full review on the LJ site.

It’s an honor for both of my 2025 releases (the collection along with A Game in Yellow) to have gotten starred reviews from Library Journal.

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is out September 16 from Titan Books!

 

 

Cover reveal: Teenage Girls Can Be Demons

It’s cover reveal day!

I’m delighted to share the cover art for my upcoming collection Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, releasing September 16th from Titan Books! This one is another stunner from Julia Lloyd, who did the art for my previous two Titan books, A Light Most Hateful and All the Hearts You Eat.

Pre-order available from: Barnes & Noble, Bookshop, and other places shown on Penguin Random House

13 coming-of-rage stories the way only Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper can tell them—wildly inventive, brilliantly imaginative, and completely and utterly enthralling.

A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in “Why We Keep Exploding”; across the world, something is mutating adolescents into bizarre creatures in “The Turning”; a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in “The Long Flesh of the Law”; and in the acclaimed novella “Benny Rose, the Cannibal King”, a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world.

These stories take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you’ll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.

2025 Begins

Happy New Year! A couple of quick updates:

First, glancing back, All the Hearts You Eat made Paste Magazine’s “The Best Horror Books of 2024,” one of fifteen titles full of nightmares. Honored that my vampires made the cut, calling the novel “a triumph in a career increasingly full of them.”

Supernatural crime novella Cranberry Cove also got a mention in The Lineup’s “2024 Horror Book Highlights.”

Now to this year! I have two books coming, both in quarter 3:

A Game in Yellow releases from Saga on August 12, 2025, a queer erotic cosmic horror novel tangling with the infamous King in Yellow.

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons releases from Titan on September 16, 2025, a collection of coming-of-rage stories about our most difficult years and the horrors that find us. Among the new stories are two new novelettes and the inclusion of a very special cannibal.

I’ll have other short fiction releasing through the year, including “Prey Instinct,” coming in the first anthology to be based off a Stephen King novel, The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King’s The Stand. The TOC is frankly jaw-dropping, and I’m overjoyed to have a story amid the work of these much-celebrated authors.

Lastly, A Game in Yellow made Paste Magazine’s “The Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2025.” So many fantastic-looking books lie in wait. It’s going to be another tremendous year for horror!

3-book deal + A Game in Yellow cover reveal

A giant monster battle of news landed last week, so there’s a bit of ground to cover here, but I’ll keep it short and snappy!

Titan Books announced a three-book deal with me, with titles releasing over the next three years. First up will be Teenage Girls Can Be Demons, a collection of coming-of-rage horror including new stories, among them two new novelettes, and some returning favorites about our teenage years and the monsters within them. That releases on September 16, 2025. In 2026, a new novel releases, This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, followed by a TBA novel in 2027.

Also coming in 2025, my erotic cosmic horror novel A Game in Yellow from Simon and Schuster, and now it has a wonderful cover by Caroline Teagle! It’s up for pre-order at the usual places, and releases August 12 next year!

Release day: The Ghostlands 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

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

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!

TGONG pre-orders return!

You might have noticed that the pre-orders page for The Ghostlands of Natalie Glasgow disappeared for a few weeks. Rooster Republic was doing some remodeling.

But it’s back now! The limited edition hardcover is up for order once again. Gathering The Possession of Natalie Glasgow alongside six all-new interconnected stories, the hardcover is up for order until April 30th. After that, it will no longer be available, but there’s still plenty of time before then.

Also, I was recently at the Scarelastic Book Fair in McCordsville, Indiana and it was wonderful. If you have a chance next year, check it out!

Next event: I’ll be at AuthorCon 3 in Williamsburg, Virginia from April 12th-14th. Hope to see you there!