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Trad Wife
by Sarah Langan
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Great for fans of: Get Out, Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinsborough
What the experts say: 'A surreal and slick feminist feast for the senses. . . A terrifying delight!' – Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes 'Wonderfully wrong in every way, Trad Wife wants to wriggle down your mouth hole and lay eggs' – Grady Hendrix, author of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls.
The Brides
by Charlotte Cross
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Great for fans of: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn, The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova.
What the experts think: 'Dracula's worthy successor: a gothic, sapphic epistolary novel that thrills, chills, and delights in equal measure.' – Johanna Van Veen, author of Blood on Her Tongue. 'I drank in this wonderfully sapphic, gothic tale with a sense of ever-deepening dread.' – Francesca May, author of This Vicious Hunger.
Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin
Why read this: An unnerving and uncanny exploration of the fears of motherhood,
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What the experts think: 'Read this in a single sitting and by the end I could hardly breathe. It's a total mind-wrecker.' – Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers.
Honeysuckle
by Bar Fridman-Tell
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Great for fans of: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado, Katherine Arden.
What the experts think: 'A hauntingly lyrical, fairytale-like horror. . . A tale in which beauty is inextricably intertwined with rot.' – Kalynn Bayron, author of Cinderella is Dead.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
by Grady Hendrix
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What the experts think: 'Terrifying, darkly funny, moving, immersive, and deeply relevant – a page-turner that will keep you up until one in the morning.' – Simone St. James, author of Murder Road
