A shout-out to the Sci-Fi & Scary team for all the fun over tentacles and vagina dentata while I started to draft this book. I took the excitement as a good omen. Thanks in that vein also go to the brilliant Laurel Hightower, the horror community’s Vagina Monster Connoisseur, for giving me the kick of confidence I needed to push ahead.

Thank you to the unparalleled Sara Tantlinger, whose love for slaughter and passion for horromance coats my bones. Lisa Quigley, thank you for a summer of magic while the re-drafting process nearly destroyed me. Also thank you to Samantha Kolesnik for the long talks and many injections of confidence throughout the tough-as-hell time during which I cobbled this book from tentacles and nonsense.

I could never have reached this point without my family’s encouragement through the years. There aren’t enough words.

And to my wife J, I would eat a city for you. Maybe two.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Hailey Piper is the author of several horror novellas, The Worm and His Kings, The Possession of Natalie Glasgow, and Benny Rose, the Cannibal King, and her short story collection Unfortunate Elements of My Anatomy.

She is a member of the Horror Writers Association, whose short stories appear in multiple volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, as well as in The Arcanist, Dark Matter Magazine, Flash Fiction Online, Daily Science Fiction, Monsters Out of the Closet, Tales to Terrify, and elsewhere. A trans woman hailing from the haunted woods of New York, she now lives with her wife in Maryland, where together they hunt flying saucers, scout parallel universes, and craft monstrosities in their laboratory/apartment, sometimes all in one night.

Document Outline

• Queen of Teeth
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