A Light Most Hateful

A Horror Novel by Hailey Piper

Subgenres:

Small Town Horror,
Cosmic Horror,
Reality-Bending,
Survival Horror

Published 2023

Length 280 pages

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Small town horror where reality gets seriously warped
Friendship tested by supernatural threats and impossible choices

Publisher Description

Mona Awad's Bunny meets Stranger Things when a summer storm sweeps through a sleepy town, unleashing a monstrous power that threatens to bend reality, from the Bram Stoker award winning author of Queen of Teeth.

Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she'll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm which crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow.

If Olivia's going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she'll need to dodge residents enslaved by the storm's otherworldly powers and find Sunflower. But as the night strains friendships and reality itself, Olivia suspects the storm, and its monster, may have its eyes on Sunflower and everything she loves. Including Olivia.

with Hailey Piper

“ ... my main canvas is the horror genre. I feel it's the most honest genre, and cathartic, conjoined with romance in being the most emotional and carnal ... ”