The Devil Knows Her Name

“A lush, eerie, utterly spellbinding contemporary tale with all the makings of a classic, elegantly rendered by an exciting new talent. Exquisitely unsettling, hauntingly beautiful, and quietly profound. Beware, this book is pretty but it has sharp teeth.” – Rachel Harrison, New York Times bestselling author of Play Nice

“An unflinching Appalachian horror and a book filled with bite, brutality, tenderness and evil. I loved it.” – Lucy Rose, Sunday Times (UK) bestselling author of The Lamb

“A contemporary story that feels utterly timeless, and undeniably classic. Like an ageless and evergreen ghost of the Brothers Grimm, with all the teeth and tenderness that you could want from a story of a dark, desperate, and not-so-helpless woman that feels more human in her supernatural affinity than any of her mortal counterparts. This book is impossibly tender, despite the fact that it sinks its teeth into your heart and chews its way through by the time the story draws to its brilliant, heartbreaking end. Vair balances the joy and triumph of victory against all odds with the insurmountable sorrow of the love we feel for all the small creatures of the world who simply live to survive. There’s not a moment wasted in this book. Every word, every dark and lovely beat, is tantamount to Tess’s roses, and the brambles in the wood: gorgeous, and lush, but sharp enough to leave a mark that sticks with you long after the story is done. I felt genuinely breathless while reading, so engrossed in Vair’s evocative prose that I hardly could remember where I was. This book is sure to be a timeless classic, returned to again and again as a sterling example of what good folk horror should be.” – Megan Bontrager, author of The Sea Hides Its Dead