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Lynn, this was the first book that I wrote in your living room. Thank you, as always, for your space, support, and hospitality. And thank you for letting me take over the entire apartment for my manic weekend banging out the last quarter of this book in wild-eyed isolation.

And finally, to my son, James: you weren’t here for the start of this book, but you sure are here for its grand debut. You’re going to have to steal it off my shelf if you want to read it before you’re fourteen. At least.

About the Author

About the Author

CAITLIN STARLING is the nationally bestselling author of The Death of Jane Lawrence and the Bram Stoker–nominated The Luminous Dead. Her newest novels, The Starving Saints and The Graceview Patient, epitomize her love of genre-hopping horror; her bibliography spans besieged castles, alien caves, and haunted hospitals. Her short fiction has been published by Grimdark Magazine and Neon Hemlock, and her nonfiction has appeared in Nightmare, Uncanny Magazine, and Nightfire. Caitlin also works in narrative design and has been paid to invent body parts. She’s always on the lookout for new ways to inflict insomnia.

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Also by Caitlin Starling

Also by Caitlin Starling

  • Last to Leave the Room
  • The Death of Jane Lawrence
  • The Luminous Dead
  • Yellow Jessamine

Copyright

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE STARVING SAINTS. Copyright © 2025 by Caitlin Starling. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Cover design and illustration by Owen Corrigan

Cover images © Getty Images, except “round miniatures of souls in torment, skull, and sun” courtesy of the New York Public Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

Digital Edition MAY 2025 ISBN: 978-0-06-341883-7

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-341881-3

About the Publisher

About the Publisher

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