Teenage Girls Can Be Demons - by Hailey Piper (Paperback)

About the Book

"13 terrifying coming-of-rage stories from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, perfect for fans of Clive Barker, Mariana Enriquez and Eric LaRocca."--Provided by publisher.

Book Synopsis

13 terrifying coming-of-rage stories from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, perfect for fans of Clive Barker, Mariana Enriquez and Eric LaRocca

13 coming-of-rage stories the way only Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper can tell them--wildly inventive, brilliantly imaginative, and completely and utterly enthralling.

A vicious group of college upperclassmen prey on the freshman girls in "Why We Keep Exploding"; across the world, something is mutating adolescents into bizarre creatures in "The Turning"; a girl on a night out realizes a bizarre cop is hunting her in "The Long Flesh of the Law"; and in the acclaimed novella "Benny Rose, the Cannibal King", a Halloween prank goes horribly wrong when a murderous ghost steps out of an urban legend and into the real world.

These stories take our most difficult years of transformation and twist them into new and terrifying shapes, where the monsters are real and you'll do whatever it takes to get away, or get even.

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Legitimately scary and off-putting, not just fun. Piper knows what she's doing, and she does it so, so well.--The New York Times

Teenage Girls does for young women what Joel Lane did for disaffected urbanites in The Lost District, stories of modern horrors faced by women anchored to the real world just enough to make them truly disturbing.--Reactor

With stories that run the gamut from rollicking and brutal to emotional and devastating, Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is sure to be a standout collection in 2025. Check out this fabulous and fearsome book as soon as you can.--Gwendolyn Kiste, Three-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens and The Haunting of Velkwood

With a delicious focus on rage and transformation, Hailey Piper's second collection offers up tales that are as bold as they are beautiful. From societal pressures to complex and intimate bonds, Piper's stories explore multifaceted characters who are unafraid to be loud and vicious. There is a refreshing grittiness to these stories where characters deal with some of life's harshest lessons. Piper's ability to dive into the gooey substance that makes humans both fascinating and horrifying is such a marvelous strength. A demonically good time that you don't want to miss!--Sara Tantlinger, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil's Dreamland

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons simmers and crackles with rage. More than just a dark and fantastic collection, these stories are a guide for survival and fighting back against a world intent on doing harm.--A. C. Wise, author of Out of the Drowning Deep

Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is Hailey Piper at her best. In a publishing world where the novel reigns supreme, here a collection is the only way to really get to know the multiplicity of Piper's work. Harrowing, scary, and raw, most often all in the same story, with topics that range from the surreal, to the nostalgic, to the all-too-real. Terrific.--Adam Cesare, Bram Stoker Award winning, USA Today bestselling author of Clown in a Cornfield and Influencer

Nobody writes grounded cosmic horror like Hailey Piper. That might seem like a contradiction in terms, but read these thirteen wild--and wildly different--tales and get a taste of just how Piper can twist you into otherworldly shapes while still reminding you of your essential, heartbreaking humanity.--Nat Cassidy, bestselling author of When the Wolf Comes Home and Mary

Powerful, wickedly clever, and deeply intimate, Hailey Piper delivers a searing and entertaining anthology that speaks to the female rage of becoming. Delightfully and thoughtfully drawn.--Dawn Kurtagich, bestselling author of The Thorns

Piper's imagination is one of the most potent in the horror space right now.--Paste Magazine

The perfect nail-biting read for the Halloween season.--Book Riot

A fierce collection of women-centered horror that explores the different ways in which girlhood and growing up can be terrifying but also empowering. Recommended for fans of Gwendolyn Kiste and Mariana Enriquez.--Library Journal, starred review

The diverse cast of heroines and genuinely chilling scares make this a winner for anyone looking for feminist horror that is weird, surreal, and driven by more than a touch of rebellion. -Publishers Weekly

A winning collection of stories that will enthrall, scare and make you wince--Bloody Flicks

About the Author

Hailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings, No Gods for Drowning, and other books of horror. She is an active member of the Horror Writers Association, with over 100 short stories appearing in various publications. She lives with her wife in Maryland, where their occult rituals are secret. Find her at www.haileypiper.com.