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Bury Your Devoured
"Her mother’s love usually never came without blood. But that’s how all love comes. That’s how you know it’s real."
After the sudden death of her mother, Ophelia, Irene Blackwell is left empty and haunted by her childhood. On the surface, they were a loving mother and daughter, but their love ran much deeper and bloodier than that. She longs for a another mother figure in her life to fill the void and cope. In comes Camilla Osman, the mortician of By Design Funeral Home where Irene works as a mortuary assistant. She's everything Ophelia was, beautiful, unnaturally kind, maternal, and she holds a secret of her own, Camilla is a serial killer. Infatuated, the lines between familial and romantic blur in a bloody relationship full of manipulation and teeth, all dusted in the scent of formaldehyde.
Bury Your Devoured is a 26,000 word gothic horror novella.
After the sudden death of her mother, Ophelia, Irene Blackwell is left empty and haunted by her childhood. On the surface, they were a loving mother and daughter, but their love ran much deeper and bloodier than that. She longs for a another mother figure in her life to fill the void and cope. In comes Camilla Osman, the mortician of By Design Funeral Home where Irene works as a mortuary assistant. She's everything Ophelia was, beautiful, unnaturally kind, maternal, and she holds a secret of her own, Camilla is a serial killer. Infatuated, the lines between familial and romantic blur in a bloody relationship full of manipulation and teeth, all dusted in the scent of formaldehyde.
Bury Your Devoured is a 26,000 word gothic horror novella.
93 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 8, 2026
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January 21, 2026
[Rounded up from 4.5 stars.]
Bury Your Devoured is a twisted story told with beautiful prose.
There's a sense of unease right from the very first chapter, and that skin-crawling feeling doesn't let up until the very end.
Agnus perfectly allegorized the darkest and most complicated relationship that can exist between mother and daughter—the love, the hatred, and the understanding.
This book is not for the faint of heart but that's what made me love it; there's honesty in the brutality.
Bury Your Devoured is a twisted story told with beautiful prose.
There's a sense of unease right from the very first chapter, and that skin-crawling feeling doesn't let up until the very end.
Agnus perfectly allegorized the darkest and most complicated relationship that can exist between mother and daughter—the love, the hatred, and the understanding.
This book is not for the faint of heart but that's what made me love it; there's honesty in the brutality.
January 9, 2026
Heart stoppingly beautiful
God… what a book. The prose was utterly gorgeous and the story had me turning every page and hoping for more!
God… what a book. The prose was utterly gorgeous and the story had me turning every page and hoping for more!
January 18, 2026
THIS WAS SO GOOOD I LOVE MESSED UP TOXIC YURI such a visceral depiction of abuse and trauma and power dynamics
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