TOADHEAD: a horror story

by Andrew Lyall

IT’S ALWAYS HUNGRYTeddy Doucet is a quiet man. The residents of Fairview know him well, but he keeps to himself.
On the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death, Teddy wakes up outside the local cemetery, filthy, confused, but not alone.

The toad sits imperious on his head. It refuses to be removed and demands to be fed.

At first – in loneliness and grief – Teddy takes comfort in the presence of this alien companion, but the Toad’s appetites grow stronger and more perverse with each passing day.

As Teddy is dragged deeper into the horror one thing becomes the Toad will never be satisfied.

Readers on Goodreads have this to say about “If Toadhead had appeared in the pulps of the fifties and sixties it would be a classic by now”“One of my reads for the year, I will definitely search out more of Lyall’s work”“Channeling a vibe akin to early 80's Stephen King” “Toadhead is gloriously nuts, gory, scary and unnerving”“Part Roald Dahl, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre”“This story feels like it was written by a horror fan for fans of horror fiction”“Warning, best not to read while eating!”

Genres: Horror, Fiction

150 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2025

Reviews

[Alex (The Bookubus) · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

Middle-aged Teddy wakes up one day to find a toad on his head. The toad will not leave. The toad has demands.

I had previously read a couple of Andrew’s short stories and loved them so I was excited to check out his latest novella. Toadhead is at times absurd and humorous, at others downright gruesome and horrifying. There were moments when I literally winced and squirmed reading this. (Heads up for some harm to animals). This is an excellently written and well paced character study with strong shades of Ed Gein, and in turn Psycho, with the 1950s small town America setting and mother-son relationship.
I definitely recommend this wild and nasty ride! One of my favourite reads of the year.

[Blake Myers · Rating 5 out of 5]

fantastic, disgusting, and intriguing

Don’t let the title scare you off. It may sound silly, but this book certainly is NOT. Yes, it plays with humor, sure, but it’s a solid story with a great cast of believable characters.

It is a little bit of a slow burn, but once it gets cooking (pun intended) it’s great. There are a few scenes that might make your stomach turn. However, it never dwells on them unnecessarily.

On a final note, it is wonderfully written. Lyall gives a masterclass in prose in TOADHEAD.

[Kevin Judge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks to Andrew for the advance review copy of Toadhead.
This book is ridiculously good, so I do not want to spoil or give away too much in this review.
Lyall introduces readers to the main character of Teddy Doucet. A loner that has experienced a harsh upbringing and life, and awakes to discover a toad on his head!
The pacing is exceptional, and the momentum builds with Teddy's descent into disillusionment and depravity. Everything works in this story and, being Scottish, I loved some of the turn of phrases used (like "cool your jets"). This story feels like it was written by a horror fan for fans of horror fiction.
Warning, best not to read while eating! The descriptions used between animals and edibles help to build a mood of creepy grossness.
I would love to see this developed into a movie, as it really does delivers. It is one hell of a ride.

[DA · Rating 5 out of 5]

First I want to mention the cover and title. The bright green cover with a minimalistic illustration had me stopping in my tracks. It's simple, but extremely effective in drawing a reader's eye. Then I read the title and I knew this was going to be an interesting read. Normally I read books blind, but in this case I read the blurb and knew I had to read this book.

While I am guilty of judging a book by it's cover, there is nothing minimalistic about this story. If you take bizarro, add in some mental health horror and psychological horror and mix it all together, you get Toadhead.

What a wild ride. Teddy starts off as your typical sympathetic character, but then things change. Reality shifts and you realize he's been an unreliable narrator the whole time.

Fantastic book that is most certainly going into my top reads of the year.

[Alana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gwarp… well, that was weird. Teddy has got a little problem, and what he does to appease it seems to have no limits. This was sad, gross, and bizarre - exactly what I needed.

For a novella, the author has managed to pack a punch by building the small world that Teddy lives in. The way everything fell in place worked well, and it didn’t feel like I needed to know much more. You come to understand him, and it just makes sense why he’s like this.

Overall, this was a disturbing story, and the latter portion had moments that truly made me feel a bit sick. I love it!

Thank you to BookSirens for this free copy to review

[Leo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got the arc for review.

I had heard of the book and the cover and blurb really made me curious to read it. Man wakes up near a grave yard with a a toad on his head. that was the start of a horror book. I enjoyed the story, it was creepy, quick and quite a uniqe story.

[Sarah R. New · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many thanks for Andrew Lyall for the advance reader's copy.

Atmospheric and eminently readable, Lyall takes creature horror and takes it to the max. This twisting tale devolves quickly, leaving you inside the head of Teddy Doucet; a fascinating yet terrifying character study that has echoes of Psycho. Highly descriptive, this novella is not for the weak!

One of my reads for the year, I will definitely search out more of Lyall’s work.

[Jessica · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating
3.5⭐(rounding up to 4)

Trigger Warnings
- Body horror
- Gore and grotesque imagery
- Animal death (cat)
- Grief and trauma

The Vibe
Unsettling, slimy body horror blended with psychological weight.

What I Enjoyed
The opening premise hooked me right away—“does this guy really have a human eating toad permanently attached to his head?!” From there the story builds slowly into something much deeper about Teddy’s grief and isolation.

I liked the late 1950s setting. Teddy lives alone on a farm in an old farmhouse, shaped by loss and abandonment: his father left the family early on, his older brother George died at eighteen, and Teddy became the caretaker for his mother until she passed away. With no family left, and in a time without Google or social media to keep him connected, his only ties to the outside world came when he went into town. That mix of grief, loneliness, and isolation gave the story a vintage unease that worked perfectly.

The writing is sharp and unsettling without extra padding. This is a shorter read, and that works in its favor. Lyall delivers exactly what the story needs and nothing more. I loved the vivid, grotesque descriptions, especially the use of noises and imagery. The ending tied everything together and finally revealed the connection between Teddy and the toad. It gave closure without wrapping things up too neatly, leaving me satisfied but still thinking about Teddy’s trauma and what pushed him over the edge.

What Didn’t Work for Me
I’m pretty sure the drinking age in the late 1950s was 18, not 21, so that detail pulled me out of the story for a moment. I also wished for more background on Teddy’s family—his father, mother, and his brother George. Dialogue from his childhood or his perception of certain family events could’ve added more depth and maybe shown if something was always a little off about him.

Read This If You Liked
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Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones

Final Thoughts
This is a strange, memorable little horror story that balances grotesque imagery with themes of grief and loneliness. Lyall takes a bizarre idea and digs into it with confidence. I’d definitely be curious to see what else he writes.

ARC Disclosure
I received an advance reader copy of this book through BookSirens. Thank you to the author and publisher for the chance to read it early. These thoughts are my honest opinion.

[Christopher Berard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Is the toad on his head or in his head? To what has Teddy Doucet surrendered his agency? These are the questions that plague us from the start of Toadhead. Teddy Doucet is unwell and cannot extricate himself from a toxic, parasitic creature. This reader, not unlike Teddy, could not tear himself away from this text, owing in no small part to the curiosity that killed the cat. In Toadhead, Andrew Lyall establishes himself as a master of suspense and he evokes the heat, the sweat, and the bugs of Southern Gothic as well as the blurring of the magical and the mundane that is Supernatural Realism. If you like Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and Robert Bloch, spring for Toadhead. It is escapist horror at its finest that will hold you in its thrall!

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you to Booksirens and Lyall for the e-ARC of Toadhead.

Waking up in a graveyard and finding a carnivorous toad on (in??) your head...are you safe? Is anyone really safe?

I loved this novel. It was short, thrilling, gory, and also really thoughtful. At no point did I know where Teddy Doucet's headspace was. Is he supporting his toad? Is he fighting anything? Is he the toad? I'm still perplexed, but devoured this novel nonetheless. His dissent and choices built who he was as a person - in such a short amount of pages, that's a feat!

I'll definitely be keeping Lyall on my list for future horror novels.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you awoke in a graveyard with a toad on your head, what would you do?

Toadhead is a weird and enthralling novella. As the story progressed, it had me on the edge of my seat! I kept thinking, "This could totally be a movie."

But it's not just a weird and wacky horror premise. This story has a lot of heart. I felt for Teddy, and I felt for others. Andrew Lyall knows how to draw sympathy from the reader.

Toadhead is a short read at 150 pages, with clear, straightforward prose. It's also highly re-readable. Knowing the ending doesn't spoil the ride, so to speak, although I'm not going to spoil anything here! Go read it!

[Aaron Donogh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would love to see this adapted into a movie. This is the type of horror I love in novella form. It's a simple idea, and it gets disgusting and absolutely bonkers by the end. Don't look anything up, just go into this one knowing it's the story of a man who wakes up with a toad on his head.

[Lexisbookishburrow · Rating 4 out of 5]

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After the one year anniversary of his mother’s death Teddy wakes up in the cemetery one night with an unwelcome guest perched on the top of his head. The Toad refuses to budge no matter how hard Teddy tries to remove it but eventually he finds comfort with his new companion. Unfortunately for Teddy his new companion has an unnatural hunger that Teddy has no choice but to satisfy.



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I am without a doubt a sucker for a good cover and though this is minimalistic it delivered just enough to catch my eye.

The book description was interesting and intrigued me even more with how unique it sounded. Though the story was short it was still written well and kept me locked in. Teddy was written well as was his grief and that of another character, his neighbor, that we’re introduced to. I couldn’t help but find myself sympathizing with him though the story kept getting darker and darker.

I also enjoyed the visuals the author was able to paint so well. Overall the story was a quick and enjoyable read while delivering just enough horror with its unique story.




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✦『 Q u o t e s I L i k e d 』✦


Grief's wave was always lapping at her heart, but sometimes it surged without warning.

When she looked at them she didn’t see objects that were billions of years old and possibly already dead. She saw the beauty of life.


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The cover is what initially snagged my attention, as is with most books. The premise itself sounded unique and interesting.

That is one old cat, if it was around when they were kids and the main character Teddy is now fifty. That’s kind of wild.

Oh my god. The cat scene. That cat ain’t ever coming back home.

So the Toad has an eye fetish, I wonder why he hasn’t attacked Teddy. The writing so far is really good, very descriptive where I’m physically cringing at the story.

“I’ll keep an eye out.” That made me chuckle along with Teddy. The poor cat though.

I’d honestly read a story about Marie Isabelle de Chambray. I even looked it up to see if it was a real story cause it sounded interesting in the way Teddy told it. I just love occult stuff.

I love how creepy Teddy is being. Also the baby carrots has me cringing audibly.

I wonder if the toad has something to do with Teddy’s mental state or if he was already slightly deranged before it. Previous scenes from his childhood show that he was rather sensitive when it came to creatures dying.

I’m assuming the white liquid has something to do with Teddy’s mental state.

I wonder if the frog was apart Teddy’s mental decline. Something that wasn’t actually there. Francine doesn’t seem to take notice of what would be something that would stick out immediately. I wonder if whether the frog became fully absorbed into Teddy, or if it’s all just his mental breakdown from killing his brother. Maybe losing his mother was just the final straw.

Also I hope Francine’s dogs are still alive.


What a wild ride, and I’m left at the end wondering if the toad was even real or if it was just Teddy having a mental breakdown.

Also I’m so glad the dogs weren’t dead from starvation or something. They were the heroes they deserved to be.


✦❀✦ F i n a l T h o u g h t s ✦❀✦ 

Gwarp.

[Vance · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I picked this up because I thought the premise looked fun. It ended up being a lot deeper than I expected! I don’t want to spoil how, just that it made what could’ve been a silly monster story into something much more. Interesting characters, a fun amount of violence and gore, and mysteries with plot twists! It was a bit predictable at times, but that didn’t take away from the overall experience. It wasn’t anything groundbreaking, but I enjoyed it!

My only critique is the detail about him reading about the Nazis, it felt like shock value and had no bearing on the story. It just felt unnecessary and shocking for no reason.

[Christopher Ward · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely well written with a snappy pace and lots of gruesome detail. I look forward to reading more from Andrew.

[Simon Marlow · Rating 4 out of 5]

In 1978, Richard Donner’s Superman declared ‘You'll believe a man can fly’. In 2025 Andrew Lyall declares that you will believe a man can go about his days with a toad on his head. And you will. Until you won’t. It’ll be too late by then though, and it’s not going to end well.

It’s perhaps impossible to write that concept realistically, but Andrew does a first rate job in making it believable. I’ve been a fan of his tales since the first book, 17 Stories of Death and Desire. His short story “The Lapwing’s Decree” has become one of my favourites (a cigarette smoking seagull handing out the orders as an agent of chaos? Yes please.); while “The Rest is Pieces” is one of those horror concepts that you’re amazed wasn’t written until now. In Toadhead the prose is reserved without ever feeling sparse but never misses its cue for a wet and meaty verse that grabs you by the ear and leers into you with fetid breath.

Part Roald Dahl, part Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Toadhead whisks you off to the barren farmland of Midwest America and sets you down in the company of a very lonely man who is never going to find what he needs in his small town community; he all but welcomes the toad which makes its home in his hair.

The inevitable twist (perhaps it’s more of a development) is more — ‘oh, of course’, than mind-blowing game changer, and Lyall wears his influences like a badge of honour. By this point it is well earned though, and the finale takes us back to many a classic movie with similar outcomes.

If Toadhead had appeared in the pulps of the fifties and sixties it would be a classic by now. It’ll obviously find its audience more limited in 2025 but I enjoyed it from start to finish. Pulp horror is my comfort blanket and I loved curling up beneath its corpse filled sheets and relaxing amongst the grisly remains. Be warned though, the final sentence may put you off grapes for good.

[STRANGE GIRL BOOK REVIEWS · Rating 5 out of 5]

The horror genre has never been my forte, to be quite honest—but I am a big fan of both Edgar Allan Poe and movie director Alfred Hitchcock, and that is what mainly drew me to review Toadhead by Andrew Lyall, since the story seems to have influences from both gentlemen.
Imagine Poe and Hitchcock collaborating on a script and you might easily picture something along the lines of this little gem of modern horror fiction taking shape. It's terrifying but also full of subtle humor, whilst all wrapped up into a nostalgic late 1950s black&white movie feel—not unlike the classic film Psycho. In fact, there is much this book’s main character shares with the protagonist of Hitchcock’s cinematographic classic (loner, momma’s boy, etc.). But more on that later.

CONCEPT
The second main element that drew me to this book was the concept at the core of it: a man wakes up with a toad sitting on his head, and this toad seems to have no intentions of ever leaving the man's head-turned-to-nest!
Author Lyall has openly stated on his substack account where the inspiration for this came from:
“The first thing I did was google something along the lines of “lesser known folk tales” to try and get some inspiration. That took me to a list of lesser-known fairy tales which included The Ungrateful Son by the brothers Grimm.”
And what the Grimm’s fairy tale did was to get Lyall’s creative juices going:
"I thought that I could do something with the idea of a ravenous toad on top of someone’s head. What would happen if you took that fantastical scenario, placed it in a realistic setting and played it relatively straight?”

PACE/FLOW
Toadhead makes for a very quick read at less than 150 pages, and that's mostly due to the no nonsense prose and quick pace established by the author from chapter 1, where we immediately find Teddy Doucet waking up in his pickup truck from an unexpected nap to find a toad nesting right on top of his head. The prose is direct and to the point, but it's important to point out that the dialogues are very rich while matching the setting of a 1959 rural America’s small town. There is a keen sense of humor infused all along which goes in perfect contrast to the gruesome and horrific scenes we will be exposed to.

CHARACTERS
Teddy is our main character who is as twisted as he is misunderstood. And just like I mentioned before, there are many similarities between him and Norman Bates. They both have a morbid relationship with each respective mother, they both live an isolated life, after father left, older brother George died in an unfortunate river accident, and finally mother too passed.
His relationship with the toad on his head goes through several stages: from surprise, to shock, to frustration, to resignation, to morbid companionship. Teddy ends up even feeling comforted by the presence of the toad on his head, BUT the mysterious critter seems to have a voracious appetite which requires increasingly extreme measures to satisfy.

REALISTIC SETTING
What truly made this experience gripping is that we're dealing with a very realistic setting. There are no paranormal activities to speak of, no sorcery, no evil spirits in the classic sense of the term. My initial theory was that the toad might have been none other than the reincarnation of Teddy’s mother, or that a spirit or presence was possessing the animal. But the author is quite skilled at keeping us guessing until the very end, in the gripping ‘The Final Night’ chapter featuring the lovely widow, Mrs. Francine. Everything is grounded in reality from beginning to end, which will make the scary scenes even scarier.

CLOSING REMARKS
In closing, my question to Mr. Lyall was about whether Toadhead would mark the beginning of more representation of toads in modern fiction. His answer:

“We can only hope for better representation of the toad community. I did have very loose plans for two sequels, but that would have required rapid releases (maybe 2 months between each title) and once the first story was ready I got impatient and wanted to put it out. Maybe someone else can take up the mantle of the subgenre of toad-based horror!”

I surely hope so, in fact I even wrote an outline myself of a ‘self-insert’ story titled “The Man-Toad and the Pretty Young Lady” (check it out on my X account @Miss_Lakewood) in the hopes that a talented writer would see the potential and write a full novel out of it (one can only dream *sigh).
Toadhead is a legit 5-star novel not because it presents something new and groundbreaking by any means, but because it knows what it is and it knows what it tries to accomplish. And it gets the job done swiftly and remarkably well, leaving readers feeling like they had a full experience from first to last page.
💜

[Mr Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book Review: Toadhead - Andrew Lyall (Horror Novella)

From a synopsis that sounds like something Garth Marenghi would read at the start of an episode of Dark Place, Toadhead takes the reader on wild ride with protagonist Teddy Doucet: A man who has a literal toad hidden under his hat like a fucked up nightmare version of Pixar's Ratatouille! (Although you probably wouldn't want to try any of Teddy's recipes.)

Channeling a vibe akin to early 80's Stephen King, Toadhead is a brief toam that ricochet's from the semi-absurdist world view of Teddy, and the creeping dread of people observing him as they are caught in his orbit. The story's comedic early passages soon give way to an entropic festering horror, one that pokes at the parts of the soul that don't like to be touched. There staggeringly invasive passages of gore are served with a grotesque relish that are genuinely stomach-churning and very telling in its matter-of-factness, not on the obvious excitement of the author at the thought of his readers recalling in disgust (although, that is a perk of the job), but telling of Teddy's declining state of mind.

While Lyall wears his influences proudly on his sleeve (the aforementioned King along with, James Herbert, Robert Block and Thomas Harris), he has a style uniquely his that takes this out of the realm of pure pastiche, and presents something uniquely his own. With many-a gorgeous turn of phrase, "The toad sat on his boss like a factory boss, overseeing its solitary worker" and "He seemed to be the only thing under his roof that had been touched by time", Lyall's latest offering regularly touches the lofty heights of his finest work (his sophomore publication The Well at the End of the World) and occasionally surpasses it. His snapshots of people living with loss are a beautiful counterpoint to horrors found elsewhere. So many of his characters are widowed, have lost siblings, parents and children, that a graceful melancholy threads its way through the prose. It's a fine balancing act of shifting tones, teetering and desperate to maintain a balance that can't be achieved while Teddy Doucet is in the world. This imbalance is something felt by Toadhead's deftly drawn characters and this reader.

The high point of the entire book however is Chapter 7: A Lynchian glide through the streets of Plainview on an October evening, with none of the characters knowing the immediate danger they are in. It's a marrow-chilling waking nightmare that ensnares you and watches as you try to escape. (If you want a bonus scare, re-read Chapter 7 again the day after completing the book!)

Toadhead is gloriously nuts, gory, scary and unnerving work that will leave readers desperate to see what comes next.

RJF

[Lee Hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Unique, sinister and incredibly well-executed horror

The concept of a man waking up with a hungry toad attached to his head may sound a little out there and it is but Andrew Lyall uses it to deliver a unique, sinister and incredibly well executed horror story.

‘Teddy ‘Doucet’ must learn to live with a new kind of normal as this toad is going nowhere and soon enough as a reader, I found myself adjusting to it also because the concept really does grow throughout. From what begins with strange twists flows further into the more absurd and even gruesome as this unmoving toad has an appetite. The backstory of ‘Teddy’ has darker tones and there is a theme of loss or even grief that heightens everything. Those who enjoy ‘Pet Semetery’ and ‘Psycho’ will appreciate the themes here while the story is original and carves a path of mystery that kept me turning pages.

From a strong setting with good world building all the way to a style of writing that gets into the reader’s head (no pun intended) because the ending will keep you thinking and possibly up at night.

‘The line of reasoning didn’t placate the creature at all; it knew what it wanted. Luckily, Teddy had become proficient in distracting it…’

[S.S. Fitzgerald · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this as an advanced reader - ARC

It's called Toadhead, and guess what, it's about a guy with a toad on his head, just in case you couldn't figure that out.

First, understand this is a horror novel, an introspective one too, so keep that in mind as I explain my comparison. Toadhead reminded me of Franz's Metamorphosis, not in the horror but representation of the toad within the story. You certainly can take the toad at face value and there's some absurdity to be enjoyed there. But being that it is horror, and there's moments of sympathy around our loner character, you can start to draw the parallels. The moments of horror can be seen as background moments to where the book actually shines, which is observing the cast of characters.

The deaths aren't overly graphic, so if you're a splatterpunk reader, this isn't for you despite the some of the deaths being graphic in nature - the writer doesn't delve into those moments. The moments are present, and we understand what is seen without feeling it's over the top.

[Uilleam Whitedale · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you want surreal, turn to Andrew Lyall. This book begins as total camp, with a real King short-story/Creepshow vibe, but soon turns into a Hitchcockian nightmare. It would really adapt well as a movie, and I felt as if I were watching a movie while reading. Lyall's colorful, nonchalant descriptions remain masterful and add real depth to the setting and characters. However, a scene switch meant to later blend together two POVs, as he's done in other works, was not as successful as it could have been and, unfortunately, hurt the rhythm, leaving me wondering where the toad went. The story does not end how I had expected, which was not a bad thing at all, but felt a tad cliche. There was, however, a masterful touch concerning the toad(s) near the end that helped really tie it all together with a genius and unsettling realization. All in all, TOADHEAD is a mindbender and, even with the jarring switch, kept me reading. I finished it in a few hours. Read this book.

[Kayla Wiklanski · Rating 4 out of 5]

Teddy Doucet is quite the character. He wakes to a toad on his head. This begins the troubled journey of Teddy and his new little friend. Toad is a hungry fella and Teddy needs to make sure his hunger is sufficed.

This whole book I absolutely enjoyed. You didn't know what the next action of Teddy would be or the depths he'd take for toad. Andrew shares throughout the story of Teddy's upbringing and how it molded him into person he is now. There is gore. It's descriptive yet not super detailed. Just enough to gross you out a bit and get your imagination going.

Thank you for allowing me to read an ARC for my honest review.

[Coryn Noble · Rating 4 out of 5]

My thanks to the author for the advanced review copy.

Lyall proves that you don't have to appeal to the supernatural to craft a good horror story. You just need to play with the shadow side of our emotions and imagination, and he does that with great skill here. The slow burn of narration and description lead to the inevitable twists which bring the story to it's conclusion, and the reader going: "Aha! Now it makes sense ... in a gruesome way."

Some of the descriptions will indeed be difficult for some to read, but altogether a splendid addition to the genre.

[Rob · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thanks to Andrew for the advance review copy of Toadhead.

An original concept lots off ick moments and actually considering what the story is about some quite heartfelt sympathies for the main character had a blast reading this

[§amantha · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Tom Ramey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book starts off with a goofy but dark premise and goes in a direction I didn't expect. Truly a great horror story that blends body horror with psychological trauma. Gwarp.

[Jan Miklaszewicz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it. Sinister and atmospheric, keeps you on your toes, and written with clear, clean prose that takes care of business and allows you to focus fully on the story.