‘A Light Most Hateful’ Author Hailey Piper On Cosmic Horror and Female Desire [Watch]
Mary Beth McAndrews
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Hailey Piper’s work, teeming with monsters, viscera, and existential discussions about what it means to be alive, is shaping the modern horror landscape as we know it. Unabashedly queer, Piper is one of the authors striving to make the genre gay as hell, one novel at a time. Now, her tenth novel A Light Most Hateful has hit shelves, and Piper doesn’t show any signs of stopping her mission to write queer, weird, and gross novels that speak to the monster inside us all.
Read the full synopsis:
Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in the nowhere town of Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she’ll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then from the summer night storm that crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow.
If Olivia’s going to escape Chapel Hill and someday reconcile with her parents, she’ll need to dodge residents enslaved by the storm’s otherworldly powers and find Sunflower. But as the night strains friendships and reality itself, Olivia suspects the storm, and its monster, may have its eyes on Sunflower and everything she loves. Including Olivia.
Dread Central spoke with Piper about creating her monsters, female desire, and more.
Watch the full interview below:
A Light Most Hateful is available now wherever you purchase your books.
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