2023 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel (nominee)
A provocative, blood-soaked slasher about unsung villainesses – a nightmarish blend of Eric LaRocca meets American Psycho
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess.
By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.
But when Gideon Green – her best friend's brother – moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.
Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it's Maeve's turn with the knife.
Genre: Horror
By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess.
By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.
But when Gideon Green – her best friend's brother – moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet.
Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it's Maeve's turn with the knife.
Genre: Horror
Praise for this book
"Maeve Fly is a revelation. It hurt to turn these pages, but I couldn't stop. Maeve is every beautiful nightmare you've ever dared to dream. An unforgettable read." - Richard Chizmar
"Full of glamour and gore, this genre-rejecting debut is unlike any I've ever read." - Jean Kyoung Frazier
"An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho, a guidebook to the dead spaces of Los Angeles, a Hollywood black mass, an occult ritual that cracks the earth, Maeve Fly oozes enough anguish, alienation, and angst to drown the world." - Grady Hendrix
"A shocking, wild, and sinister addition to LA literature." - Liska Jacobs
"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight. Child of God has nothing on Maeve Fly. But I think they might be cousins. Just, let's not let them Mickey and Mallory across the world, ok?" - Stephen Graham Jones
"Our collective Hollywood fantasy gets the chainsaw autopsy it deserves in this deliriously indecent feminist slasher." - Daniel Kraus
"Maeve Fly is one of those books that is many things at once: sensual, brutal, sly, joyfully unnerving, and a blood-soaked love letter to LA. But at its core it's a horror novel, and it scared the hell out of me." - Keith Rosson
"Full of glamour and gore, this genre-rejecting debut is unlike any I've ever read." - Jean Kyoung Frazier
"An apocalyptic Anaheim Psycho, a guidebook to the dead spaces of Los Angeles, a Hollywood black mass, an occult ritual that cracks the earth, Maeve Fly oozes enough anguish, alienation, and angst to drown the world." - Grady Hendrix
"A shocking, wild, and sinister addition to LA literature." - Liska Jacobs
"This is gory and brutal and beautiful and painful and terrifying and a pure delight. Child of God has nothing on Maeve Fly. But I think they might be cousins. Just, let's not let them Mickey and Mallory across the world, ok?" - Stephen Graham Jones
"Our collective Hollywood fantasy gets the chainsaw autopsy it deserves in this deliriously indecent feminist slasher." - Daniel Kraus
"Maeve Fly is one of those books that is many things at once: sensual, brutal, sly, joyfully unnerving, and a blood-soaked love letter to LA. But at its core it's a horror novel, and it scared the hell out of me." - Keith Rosson
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