Hester Steel
Hester Steel is the queer debut author of The Faceless Thing We Adore. Originally from the UK, she has worked around the world as a freelance writer and English teacher.
Her work has appeared in several small press and indie anthologies, including The Uncanny and the Dead. Hester currently lives in London.
Genres: Horror
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Hester Steel recommends
The White North Has Thy Bones (2026)
Dorian Ravenscroft
"The Arctic horror of my dreams - one of those books that turns out to be exactly what you didn't know you were waiting for. It's a fantastically atmospheric and genuinely brutal survival story that brilliantly captures the grime and glamour of 19th-century London and the gruelling beauty of the Arctic. It's a mystery box packed with unfolding revelations that make you want to flip back to the beginning and reread it all in a new light. It's an excoriating takedown of the arrogance and exploitation that shaped the history of Polar exploration. It's a truly haunting, chilling and original ghost story. And it's a book about terrible men who kiss and eat each other. It keeps you guessing all the way through, if by 'guessing' you mean 'reading late into the night gripped with terror.' This is my new obsession."
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