Reviews
Praise for Black Flame
“Nasty, erotic, kinky, vicious, suspenseful….Felker-Martin uses the trope of the cursed movie and creates something utterly unique that manages to horrify, beguile, and empower in equal measure. If you are going to read one horror book this year, make it this one.”
—JOHANNA VAN VEEN, author of My Darling Dreadful Thing
Praise for Gretchen Felker-Martin
“Cuckoo is, like Felker-Martin’s previous novel Manhunt, absolutely masterful.”
—ROXANE GAY, New York Times bestselling author of The Bad Feminist
“Manhunt is a modern horror masterpiece.”
—CARMEN MARIA MACHADO,
author of National Book Award finalist Her Body and Other Parties
“With [Cuckoo], Felker-Martin appoints herself the new High Priestess of splatter….A story of love, hate, and sacrifice that spares no suffering, but takes no pity.”
—TONY TULATHIMUTTE, author of National Book Award finalist Rejection
“Disgustingly rendered and brilliantly imagined…. A fresh, stomach-turning take on gendered apocalypse.”
—NPR on Manhunt
“Cuckoo is a breathtaking novel of body horror; a heartbreaking, angry, terrifying, unflinching indictment of Christian America’s cruelty; and it’s a soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It’s flat-out mesmerizing.”
—PAUL TREMBLAY, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie
“A grisly, gory, glorious work of splatterpunk social horror — and the perfect introduction to both subgenres.”
—BUSTLE on Manhunt
“Tense and frighteningly visceral, Cuckoo is a masterwork of body horror thrumming with high octane viciousness.”
—ERIC LAROCCA, author of At Dark, I Become Loathsome
“Felker-Martin can write: Manhunt expertly drops one political target after another, breaks your heart with nearly every character, and keeps up a relentless velocity— all while just being plain fun as hell.”
—TORREY PETERS, PEN/Hemingway Award winning author of Detransition, Baby
