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Hailey Piper

Hailey Piper is the author of The Worm and His Kings, Queen of Teeth, Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy, Benny Rose the Cannibal King, and The Possession of Natalie Glasgow. Her short stories appear in Daily Science Fiction, The Arcanist, Flash Fiction Online, Tales to Terrify, and Year's Best Hardcore Horror, among other publications. An avid reader, lifelong Godzilla fangirl, and member of the Horror Writers Association, she spends much of her free time either writing new horrors or helping her wife haunt their apartment by making spooky noises.

Genres: Horror

New Books

July 2023

Cruel Angels Past Sundown
(Splatter Western)

October 2023

A Light Most Hateful

Series

Worm and His Kings
1. The Worm and His Kings (2020)
2. Even the Worm Will Turn (2023)

Novels

   Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy (2021)
   Queen of Teeth (2021)
   No Gods For Drowning (2022)
   A Light Most Hateful (2023)
   All the Hearts You Eat (2024)

Collections

Tales From Between (2022) (with others)
Unspeakable Horror 3 (2023) (with others)

Anthologies edited

   Rigor Morbid: Lest Ye Become (2019) (with V Castro, Alicia Hilton, V Medina, Joanne Rixon, Sandra Ruttan, N Sowers, Angela Sylvaine and Patrick Winters)
   Gothic Blue Book VI: A Krampus Carol (2020) (with Nico Bell, Die Booth, Laurel Hightower, Cynthia Pelayo, Gerardo Pelayo, Monique Quintana, Mary Rajotte, Austrian Spencer and Sara Tantlinger)
   We're Here (2023) (with Pippa Bailey, Anton Cancre, Michael R Collins, Ruth Anna Evans, Dan B Fierce, Angelique Jordonna, Jason Lavelle, James Lefebure, Evan J Peterson, Sumiko Saulson and Judith Sonnet)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Possession of Natalie Glasgow (2019)
Your Mind is a Terrible Thing (2022)

Series contributed to

Short Sharp Shocks!
33. An Invitation To Darkness (2020)

Rewind or Die
3. Benny Rose, The Cannibal King (2020)

Splatter Western
Cruel Angels Past Sundown (2023)

Hailey Piper recommends

Where the Dead Wait (2023)
Ally Wilkes
"Harrowing and clawing with the iciest fingernails. The only thing harder to escape than the bloodthirsty sea is the longing and regret. WHERE THE DEAD WAIT proves that the frozen nightmare is the domain of Ally Wilkes; we're just left to survive it."

The Daughters of Block Island (2023)
Christa Carmen
"The Daughters of Block Island offers an atmospheric, harrowing plight of ghosts and murder. Christa Carmen paints an island of vivid and unsettling imagery, where every claustrophobic twist leads deeper into an underworld of dread. A compelling mystery, with arresting characters ready to engulf you."

Nestlings (2023)
Nat Cassidy
"Surprising and mysterious. Nestlings is rich in the ominous discomfort of a prize that's too good to be true. This book sticks to your skin."

Brainwyrms (2023)
Alison Rumfitt
"A gut-churning infestation mixing extreme depravity with a hive of obsessive violence. Rumfitt consistently has her finger to the societal pulse."

Bloom (2023)
Delilah S Dawson
"Dawson has brought the kind of irresistible treat you've been hungering for. Sapphic longing with a dash of darkness - the perfect recipe. Superbly seductive."

Black Sheep (2023)
Rachel Harrison
"Surprising and snappy, Harrison catches you on Hellraiser hooks with a ceremony of grim wit and communal dread. Black Sheep makes a firm case for dodging every family get-together."

Black River Orchard (2023)
Chuck Wendig
"Creepy and insidious, Black River Orchard whets your appetite and then turns you inside out."

Fever House (2023)
Keith Rosson
"Devilishly relentless . . . This book is concrete brutality that will leave you bruised and out of breath."

Our Own Unique Affliction (2023)
Scott J Moses
"Moses tenders a vampire's origin and fate in the skin of a mood-soaked tragedy, embraced by bloody nights and unyielding regrets. Fans of Paul Tremblay's The Pallbearers Club should sink their fangs in before sunrise."

Looking Glass Sound (2023)
Catriona Ward
"I couldn't tear myself away. Looking Glass Sound is slyly addictive. Falling into a Catriona Ward book means knowing you'll be caught and never let go. Unconventional, imaginative, and brazenly twisted."

Linghun (2023)
Ai Jiang
"The neighborhood in Linghun is a twisted-neck demon, forever looking backward at the ghosts and ghosts-to-be. Ai Jiang builds an altar of the flawed living and the perfect dead with an unflinching eye for death-cloaked domestic tragedy. A haunting, brilliant debut."

Sister, Maiden, Monster (2023)
Lucy A Snyder
"On every charged page, Snyder sets to work catching and devouring the grimmest of social ills. Sister, Maiden, Monster is a gory treat of rich monster science and near-decadent body horror. Delicious and devious."

Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes (2022)
Eric LaRocca
"'Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke' is a tight, merciless epistolary, each piece of correspondence coiling the reader around its finger and never letting go. LaRocca skillfully weaves a grotesque, unforgettable page-turner of manipulation and depravity."

Full Immersion (2022)
Gemma Amor
"Powered by dread from the very beginning, Full Immersion is a full-throated scream in the heart. Gemma Amor wields an ever-tightening emotional vice, constantly questioning and challenging the malevolent unreality we accept as our lives. A harrowing inward odyssey."

The Butcher (2022)
Laura Kat Young
"Young crafts a mean little world of stark landscapes and sharp edges, and beneath each turn lies a wound. Psychologically claustrophobic, and a harrowing debut."

Screams From the Dark (2022)
Ellen Datlow
"Screams From the Dark crackles with ferocious energy and ravenous delights. A thrilling feast for we who love monsters. Datlow has gathered the kinds of stories to which all gruesome campfire tales aspire."

The Sharp End of the Rainbow (2022)
Madeleine Swann
"A dazzling storm of bizarre daydreams and nightmares. Swann is an expert surrealist, and she yanks just the right cryptic nerves to check if they'll flinch. Sometimes playful, other times shocking, these are stories of worlds and people twisted in their odd logic, much like our own, much like us."

Manhunt (2022)
Gretchen Felker-Martin
"Juicing up an unforgettable post-apocalypse, this gorgeously queer, messed-up beautiful beast of a novel scrapes glass shards over nerves while offering readers an affectionate whisper. A unique, brain-searing nightmare that's full-on teeth and claws, and all heart too."

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