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
“Black Flame is a literary razor blade raked right over the reader’s eyeballs, Un Chien Adalouing the shit out us with nearly every page. Gretchen Felker-Martin is ready for her close-up, and this book further testifies to her blood red reign as horror’s enfant terrible.”
—CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes
“Felker-Martin’s stunning prose is equal parts grotesque and lyrical as she turns an unflinching gaze on the extremes of compulsion and desire on the way to a truly devastating climax. The story threads the difficult needle of presenting unsympathetic characters and complicated relationships without compromising its vision, and the results are spectacular.”
—Publishers Weekly (STARRED review)
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
