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Kristi DeMeester

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Horror

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Kristi DeMeester is the author of Beneath, published by Word Horde, and Everything That's Underneath by Apex Books. Her short fiction has been included in Ellen Datlow's Year's Best Horror Volumes 9 and 11, Year's Best Weird Fiction Volumes 1, 3, and 5, and Stephen Jone's Best New Horror. Her short fiction has also appeared in publications such as Black Static, The Dark, Pseudopod, as well as several others. In her spare time, she alternates between telling people how to pronounce her last name and how to spell her first. ...more

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Average rating: 3.54 · 12,082 ratings · 3,085 reviews · 80 distinct works • Similar authors

	Such a Pretty Smile 3.35 avg rating — 5,449 ratings — published 2022 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Darkest Night: 22 Winter Horror Stories by Lindy Ryan (Goodreads Author) (editor), Josh Malerman (Goodreads Author) (contributor), Rachel Harrison (contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 910 ratings — published 2024 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian Rogers (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Fran Wilde (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.65 avg rating — 694 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Horror of the Year, Volume Eleven by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction), Anne Billson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ralph Robert Moore (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 556 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beneath 3.10 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything That's Underneath 3.45 avg rating — 428 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Sisters 4.17 avg rating — 343 ratings — expected publication 2025 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Life That Is Not Mine by Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author), Saskia Maarleveld (Narrator) 3.33 avg rating — 104 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unmemory by Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author), Yves Tourigny (Illustrator) 3.87 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Split Tongues by Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author), Natalia Drepina (Illustrator) 4.53 avg rating — 47 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Kristi voted for Play Nice as Readers' Favorite Horror in the Final Round of the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards. Cast Your Vote
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Kristi has read Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Quotes by Kristi DeMeester (?)

“Everything devours itself. Lust. Hate. Love. We burn and burn until there is only ash, and then we eat what remains. Carry it inside of us like a secret. Until it grows into something else.”
― Kristi DeMeester, Everything That's Underneath

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“At school, there had been a mild panic among the students, and parents kept their girls at home, locked in their proverbial towers as if wood and locks couldn’t be opened. Or broken. Those pure, innocent girls kept from anything that defined them in the name of protection, while their brothers carried on as if there was nothing to fear. But for them, there wasn’t. They would never understand the inherent trepidation that came as a result of being wrapped in girl flesh.”
― Kristi DeMeester, Such a Pretty Smile

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“The sound of nails against wood as Birdie looked up, watched as her mother crawled on all fours across the ceiling, her mouth drawn into a smile, her eyes missing.”
― Kristi DeMeester, Everything That's Underneath

tags: horror-fiction, mother, motherhood, mothers-and-daughters

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Polls

What Non-King book would you like to read in June?

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires Grady Hendrix

25 votes, 11.9%

The Silent Patient Alex Michaelides

25 votes, 11.9%

Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk

21 votes, 10.0%

Ninth House Leigh Bardugo

19 votes, 9.0%

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey

18 votes, 8.6%

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders Vincent Bugliosi

16 votes, 7.6%

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West Cormac McCarthy

14 votes, 6.7%

Metro 2033 Dmitry Glukhovsky

13 votes, 6.2%

I Know What You Did Last Summer Lois Duncan

12 votes, 5.7%

The Girl With All the Gifts M.R. Carey

9 votes, 4.3%

Harlan Coben The Boy from the Woods

8 votes, 3.8%

Camino Winds John Grisham

8 votes, 3.8%

It Calls From The Forest: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales from the Woods Volume 1 Michelle River

6 votes, 2.9%

Children of the Night Dan Simmons

6 votes, 2.9%

Nevernight Jay Kristoff

4 votes, 1.9%

Song of Kali Dan Simmons

2 votes, 1.0%

I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story Anthony Daniels

2 votes, 1.0%

North American Lake Monsters Nathan Ballingrud

1 vote, 0.5%

Beneath Kristi DeMeester

1 vote, 0.5%

Dragonslayer Duncan M. Hamilton

0 votes, 0.0%

Shadows in the Water Kory M. Shrum

0 votes, 0.0%

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