anthologized in The Year’s Best Fantasy Volume 3, edited by Paula Guran. Other short work can be found in Baffling Magazine, Seize the Press, Taco Bell Quarterly, and We’re Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction 2023. Her novella, How to Survive This Fairytale, was published in January 2025 and received a special edition in Rainbow Crate, a book box exclusively for queer books. The Halls of the Dead is Hallow’s debut novel.
At People magazine the author tagged eight "femgore novels that reveal the women of horror can be just as Monstrous as the patriarchy." One title on the list:
The Starving Saints by Caitlin StarlingRead about another title on the list.
A miracle happens during the siege of Aymar Castle: with only 15 days until food runs out, a “goddess” arrives to save the people living there from starvation. Suddenly there’s food aplenty, but hallucinogenic magic prevents the people of the castle from realizing their own cannibalism. Told in alternating POVs between a sorceress, a woman knight and a serving girl, this is a fever dream of a fantasy novel with plenty of room for readers to make their own inferences about what’s really going on. I read this book almost a year ago, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since.
The Starving Saints is among Lyndsie Manusos’s six best SFF books about gods and demons, Lyndsie Manusos's top six medieval horror books, and Saratoga Schaefer's five novels that use isolation to create horror.
--Marshal Zeringue
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