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)
“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
