Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel.
"A stark and frightening novel. Horror fans should definitely seek this one out." – Booklist
Some doctors are sicker than their patients.
When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital s most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Genre: Horror
"A stark and frightening novel. Horror fans should definitely seek this one out." – Booklist
Some doctors are sicker than their patients.
When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital s most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free.
FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"A genuinely weird and powerful vision, Will Haunt You delivers on its titular boast, in spades." - Gemma Files
"Will Haunt You is positively terrifying, and Kirk delivers what may be some of the best horror writing of the year." - Michael Patrick Hicks
"We Are Monsters is fantastic - a frightening and intense thriller. I was blown away. Brian Kirk is exactly what readers need - a talented new voice with original, awe-inspiring ideas that can push the genre forward." - Brian Keene
"A vivid mind-flaying descent into one man’s living nightmare. Bizarre, chilling, and at times heartbreaking, the puzzle hidden between the lines will never leave." - Todd Keisling
"A tour-de-force of psychological suspense and terror." - Lisa Mannetti
"We Are Monsters is a high-voltage thrill, like watching Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor and Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners on split screens." - Jonathan Moore
"Brian Kirk’s debut novel We Are Monsters is a sure bet. A hippy-trippy jaunt that goes deep into the baser things we keep bottled up… and what happens when they’re freed. Highly recommended!" - John F D Taff
"An example of psychological horror at its best. Open this book carefully. It might be the last thing you do." - Stephanie M Wytovich
"A smart, elaborate novel that weaves together the best and worst of us. Complex, terrifying, and still humane, this book moved me to both horror and compassion, and that’s a difficult thing indeed." - Mercedes M Yardley
"Rest assured, this is no breezy melody. It’s a dark arrangement, a terror chorus. It will sink into your bones and shake you." - Rio Youers
"Will Haunt You is positively terrifying, and Kirk delivers what may be some of the best horror writing of the year." - Michael Patrick Hicks
"We Are Monsters is fantastic - a frightening and intense thriller. I was blown away. Brian Kirk is exactly what readers need - a talented new voice with original, awe-inspiring ideas that can push the genre forward." - Brian Keene
"A vivid mind-flaying descent into one man’s living nightmare. Bizarre, chilling, and at times heartbreaking, the puzzle hidden between the lines will never leave." - Todd Keisling
"A tour-de-force of psychological suspense and terror." - Lisa Mannetti
"We Are Monsters is a high-voltage thrill, like watching Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor and Joel Schumacher’s Flatliners on split screens." - Jonathan Moore
"Brian Kirk’s debut novel We Are Monsters is a sure bet. A hippy-trippy jaunt that goes deep into the baser things we keep bottled up… and what happens when they’re freed. Highly recommended!" - John F D Taff
"An example of psychological horror at its best. Open this book carefully. It might be the last thing you do." - Stephanie M Wytovich
"A smart, elaborate novel that weaves together the best and worst of us. Complex, terrifying, and still humane, this book moved me to both horror and compassion, and that’s a difficult thing indeed." - Mercedes M Yardley
"Rest assured, this is no breezy melody. It’s a dark arrangement, a terror chorus. It will sink into your bones and shake you." - Rio Youers
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