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"I didn't like this, I LOVED it." -Taylor Jenkins Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A Rolling Stone 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • An NBC Queer Summer Beach Read to Devour • A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of the Year • A Scary Mommy 11 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Them 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Goodreads Editors' Top Pick of the Month • A Town & Country Must Read Book of the Winter • A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Fable Most Anticipated Read of the Year • A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Horror Novel of the Year • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the queer novella that inspired Dracula.
It's the height of the industrial revolution and ten years into Lenore's marriage to steel magnate Henry, their relationship has soured. When Henry's ambitions take them from London to the remote British moorlands to host a hunting party, a shocking carriage accident brings the mysterious Carmilla into their lives. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night. Carmilla, who stirs up something deep within Lenore. And before long, girls from the local villages fall sick, consumed by a terrible hunger . . .
As the day of the hunt draws closer, Lenore begins to unravel, questioning the role she has been playing all these years. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and the cravings Carmilla has awakened, soon Lenore will uncover a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk.
"Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel." -Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth "Before the very gay Dracula was ever conceived, there was the much gayer Carmilla-a queer-coded novella of female desire and insatiable hunger. Kat Dunn has taken that original inspiration and made it much stranger (and hotter), as we follow the journey of an unhappy aristocratic wife slowly coming to embrace her unholy appetites, under the guidance of an extremely sexy vampire/chaos queen. *fans self*" -Molly Odintz, Lit Hub
"The lesbian vampire novel we need." -Them
"A rich and daring reimagining that brings the beating heart of Carmilla to life again. Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel." -Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth
"Kat Dunn's Hungerstone is an atmospheric, blood-drenched, feminist twist on classic vampire tropes, a sapphic delight and industrial horror story." -Shelf Awareness
"If you're as frustrated with the patriarchy as I am, then you need a real, honest 'good for her' read this Women's History Month to help you let out all of your rage. I can't think of anything more appropriate than a historical horror retelling of the classic vampire tale Carmilla. It's everything you love about the original, but, like, even queerer. Which we love. Put it on your TBR this month. You won't regret it." -Emily Martin, Book Riot
"Extraordinary…. A dark, sensuous, gothic story of female appetite, ravenous desire and insatiable rage. A blood-drenched, glittering, jewel of a novel." -Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Atalanta
"Gives Carmilla a bold, feminist retelling." -Town & Country
"[E]viscerating, pleasurable, and inviting; a masterclass of first person present." -Maya Gittelman, Reactor
"A moody and triumphant retelling of Carmilla . . . A meditation on womanhood, corporate greed, and queer desire . . .
"I didn't like this, I LOVED it." -Taylor Jenkins Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Atmosphere and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A Rolling Stone 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • An NBC Queer Summer Beach Read to Devour • A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of the Year • A Scary Mommy 11 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Them 10 Most Anticipated Books of the Year • A Goodreads Editors' Top Pick of the Month • A Town & Country Must Read Book of the Winter • A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year • A Fable Most Anticipated Read of the Year • A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Horror Novel of the Year • A Book Riot Most Anticipated Book of the Year
A compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the queer novella that inspired Dracula.
It's the height of the industrial revolution and ten years into Lenore's marriage to steel magnate Henry, their relationship has soured. When Henry's ambitions take them from London to the remote British moorlands to host a hunting party, a shocking carriage accident brings the mysterious Carmilla into their lives. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night. Carmilla, who stirs up something deep within Lenore. And before long, girls from the local villages fall sick, consumed by a terrible hunger . . .
As the day of the hunt draws closer, Lenore begins to unravel, questioning the role she has been playing all these years. Torn between regaining her husband's affection and the cravings Carmilla has awakened, soon Lenore will uncover a darkness in her household that will place her at terrible risk.
"Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel." -Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth "Before the very gay Dracula was ever conceived, there was the much gayer Carmilla-a queer-coded novella of female desire and insatiable hunger. Kat Dunn has taken that original inspiration and made it much stranger (and hotter), as we follow the journey of an unhappy aristocratic wife slowly coming to embrace her unholy appetites, under the guidance of an extremely sexy vampire/chaos queen. *fans self*" -Molly Odintz, Lit Hub
"The lesbian vampire novel we need." -Them
"A rich and daring reimagining that brings the beating heart of Carmilla to life again. Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel." -Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth
"Kat Dunn's Hungerstone is an atmospheric, blood-drenched, feminist twist on classic vampire tropes, a sapphic delight and industrial horror story." -Shelf Awareness
"If you're as frustrated with the patriarchy as I am, then you need a real, honest 'good for her' read this Women's History Month to help you let out all of your rage. I can't think of anything more appropriate than a historical horror retelling of the classic vampire tale Carmilla. It's everything you love about the original, but, like, even queerer. Which we love. Put it on your TBR this month. You won't regret it." -Emily Martin, Book Riot
"Extraordinary…. A dark, sensuous, gothic story of female appetite, ravenous desire and insatiable rage. A blood-drenched, glittering, jewel of a novel." -Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne and Atalanta
"Gives Carmilla a bold, feminist retelling." -Town & Country
"[E]viscerating, pleasurable, and inviting; a masterclass of first person present." -Maya Gittelman, Reactor
"A moody and triumphant retelling of Carmilla . . . A meditation on womanhood, corporate greed, and queer desire . . .