A Men’sHealth Most Anticipated Fantasy!
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“Mandelo doesn’t pull any punches, including in his delivery of PEAK queer revenge. If you don’t absolutely howl with schadenfreude at the ending, I don’t know what to do with you.” —Shelley Parker-Chan for SciFiNow

“Tense, haunting, and deeply human, this is the Appalachian horror of the year.” —Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt

“The Woods All Black is a hopeful, wrathful meditation on monstrous religiosity and queer survival. A bloody, howling catharsis of a book.” —Tasha Suri, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Jasmine Throne series

“The Woods All Black blends revenge, identity, and love in a tense and slow-building story that surges to a horrifically satisfying conclusion. This is a viscerally brutal and ultimately hopeful tribute to queer forebears, both known and lost to time.” —Booklist, starred review

“A compelling tale about the tension between the perceived safety of following orders and rules established by others, the strength found in being one’s true self, and the terrible power in violent revenge.” —Library Journal

“The Woods All Black blew my mind and cemented Lee Mandelo as a king of modern gothic.” —Fabienne Schwizer, Grimdark

“Retribution has never been this sexy.” —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and What Kind of Mother

Praise for Feed Them Silence

“Feed Them Silence is a toxic love story with the world we’re killing. You’ll want to put it down, but you won’t.” —Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of The Once and Future Witches

“Holy hell, what a visceral and heart-clenching book. Feed Them Silence is a searing portrait of what it means to give up distance for the sake of understanding.” —Sarah Gailey, bestselling author of Magic for Liars

“Marvelously original and told with sensual perfection, Feed Them Silence is a beautiful, haunting testament to human need—and a lament for everything it destroys.” —Andy Davidson, author of The Hollow Kind

“An unsettling exploration of intimacy…Feed Them Silence subtly illuminates the disintegration of boundaries: humans and animals, work and love, research and exploitation.” —E.J. Beaton, author of The Councillor

“Mandelo delivers a powerful message about environmentalism and the limits of technology that doubles as a page-turning story about a collapsing marriage. Urgent, intimate, immediate, this is sure to wow.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“This novella…

will make readers consider their own beliefs regarding ethics, research, technology, and relationships.” —Library Journal

Additional Praise for Lee Mandelo

“Hooks you hard and fast from the start, then drags you kicking and screaming and loving it on a twisted backroad nightmare full of bad boys and badder revenants. A damn fine mystery thriller, wrapped in aching gorgeous prose and gasping action.” —Sam J. Miller on Summer Sons

“A gripping, gasoline-drenched story of ghosts, friendships, and things left unspoken.” —Sarah Pinsker on Summer Sons

“Full of angst and lingering spirits, Mandelo’s debut is like Tennessee molasses—dense, dark, slow-moving, and with a distinct Southern flavor.” —Publishers Weekly on Summer Sons

“So visceral that you can feel the clammy sweat of fear and secrets, and it’s full of the ugly rubbing edges of masculine frustration that’s both the desire for violence, and desire itself.” —Shelley Parker-Chan on Summer Sons