With Blood Upon His Teeth

by Adam McOmber

After a scandal with a student at Manchester College, Jim Holloway is sent away by his powerful father to Harrow's Cross, a rotting estate on the Cornish coast. Here, Jim is drawn into a maze of dark history, thick with candle smoke and violent secrets. He meets Kit, the Harrows' magnetic young American cousin, and falls for him with an intensity that pulls them both further into the house's shadow. As corridors rearrange themselves and ancient rituals emerge, Jim and Kit must unearth the buried source of the house's power before they become part of the strange story they're trying to unravel.

Gothic in mood but electric in urgency, acclaimed author Adam McOmber has written a novel in which attraction becomes an investigative force, pulling hidden histories into the light and asking what it costs to follow feelings that refuse to be contained.

Genres: Horror

272 pages, ebook

Published June 1, 2026

About the author

Adam McOmber is the author of three novels, The White Forest (Simon and Schuster), Jesus and John (Lethe), and The Ghost Finders (JournalStone) as well as three collections of stories, This New & Poisonous Air and My House Gathers Desires (BOA Editions) and Fantasy Kit (Black Lawrence). His queer, erotic reimagining of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles was released by Lethe Press in October 2022. His work has appeared recently in Conjunctions, Kenyon Review, Salt Hill and Diagram. He teaches in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing Program and is the editor-in-chief of the literary magazine Hunger Mountain.

Reviews

[Slmstanley · Rating 4 out of 5]

A gothic tale of gibbering shadows, demented family secrets, suspicious staff, doors to faerie (in the worst way), unfulfilled longing and the damage it exacts, a piercingly sweet queer romance, and the way in which our parents remain both known and wholly unknown. (Plus shadowy figures, folks who are not fully human, and gruesome murders.) Beautifully creepy.

[Paige Harne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this book up on a whim while on vacation and read it in three days. It's haunting and dark and beautifully crafted. It is one of those books that will probably only get better with every read-through.