This Movie Doesn't End the Way We Want

The queen of cosmic horror. —Book Riot

One of [Piper’s] finest novels to date. —Bloody Flicks


This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want is a fun, creepy, and thrilling twist to the cursed film genre, with more than a hint of King in Yellow, that will keep you guessing and compulsively turning the pages. The Toad Man will like you best.—Paul Tremblay, author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts


Piper’s prose belongs in a museum–the kind where a strange alchemy spreads through the walls at night, and all those monsters and bones and pillaged treasures come wickedly to life.—Rachel Louise Adams, author of Where There’s Smoke


You haven’t experienced meta horror until you’ve read it through Hailey Piper’s warped lens. This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want is a neo-noir ode to movie magic that reels you into its cosmic nightmare and leaves you trembling in the dark while the final credits roll.—Brian McAuley, USA Today bestselling author of Breathe In, Bleed Out


Cosmic horror that’ll make you reconsider the movie theater down the road.—Stephen Graham Jones, multi-award winning author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter


With This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want, all of Hailey Piper’s gifts as a writer are on display. A gripping plot, engaging characters, and strange, frightening creatures, all expressed in Piper’s numinous prose. An exploration of the depths of the human and of the metaphysical. All of which demonstrates why Hailey Piper is among the most exciting writers at work today.—John Langan, award-winning author of Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions


A brutal and unbelievably imaginative ode to horror of all mediums. Hailey Piper remains the undisputed queen of my nightmares.— Logan Ashley-Kisner, author of Old Wounds


Piper delivers cosmic terror for cinephilic queers in a book filled with gorgeous, eerie, unforgettable imagery, mind-bending twists, and characters you want to scream at through the page like you’re at your favorite horror movie.— Samantha Josephs, author of Carrying


Hailey Piper is the reigning queen of modern cosmic horror, in all its beautiful and strange dimensions. This particular cult classic will scare you to the bone, but you’ll emerge from the theater changed.—Emmett Nahil, author of From the Belly


A cosmic horror thriller whose price of admission may be more than you realize, resurrecting an all new meaning to the phrase ‘cult classic’.—Maxwell I. Gold, two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author.


Hailey Piper is one of the great voices in horror right now.—Salt Lake City Weekly


[Fans] will be stuck on this take on the cursed film genre, and will close the book quoting, “best hope Toad Man leaves you alone.—Booklist


A horror fan who likes something a little more cerebral and surreal will enjoy this unsettling tale.—SF Book Review


Gripping, spooky, and strange in the best way, this is a stunner.—Publishers Weekly Starred Review


I will read anything Hailey Piper writes, and you should too.—Bloody Disgusting


Piper doesn’t just craft a horror lover’s ode to the movies — she carries it a huge step further in the ways she makes the concept of film otherworldly and larger than life, taking the darkness and flickering lights of your local cineplex and turning them into a playground for terror, destroying the lines between spectator and victim.—Fanfiaddict


This Movie Doesn’t End the Way We Want is a horrifying, yet emotional, grief-filled tale that surprised me. Hailey Piper takes a familiar trope and makes it her own while scaring us along the way. —Capes & Tights


A five-star horror book should take a risk that feels hard to pull off, then make the risk seem like the only right choice. This one does. It takes a well-worn hook and runs queer grief, lost film, old shame, true crime and cosmic fear through it. Then it turns the light back at us.—Ginger Nuts of Horror


This Movie Doesn’t End The Way We Want carries the love of horror movies with cinematic description and movie references. It is a horror book that celebrates a love for real creativity and art.—Horror Tree


PRAiSE FOR THE AUTHOR


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


PRAISE FOR ALL THE HEARTS YOU EAT


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Steeped in influences ranging from Twin Peaks to The Lost Boys and packed with humor and heart, All The Hearts You Eat is both a vampire novel unlike any other you’ve read and a book that further cements Piper as one of our great chroniclers of the lost, the broken, and the people who see beyond what the rest of the world can perceive. It’s a triumph in a career increasingly full of them.—Paste Magazine, Best Horror Books 2024


“You think you know how this haunting will go, but you don’t. All the Hearts You Eat has a dark and powerful undertow, and it’ll pull you far, far out to sea.” Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers and Black River Orchard


“All the Hearts You Eat is a secret spell, a starless sky, the chambers of a heart and the depths of sorrow. Hailey Piper grips us in this gorgeous yet tragic death poem and life poem, in which we’re struck with the utter heartbreak of how when we are starved of friendship, love, and care we are turned into a monster. As beautiful as the sea and as unsettling as its destructive waves.” Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of Crime Scene


“Sharp but tender, delicate but bloody, tragic but triumphant, All the Hearts You Eat will curl cat claws into your chest and take hold of your heart. This is Stephen King’s IT for a new generation.” Delilah S. Dawson, New York Times bestseller and auhor of Bloom


“Piper delivers not only a fresh twist on the vampire mythos, but a juicy reimagining of horror’s archetypal Dead Girl Story. This book contains an ocean of feminist rage, queer love, and trans resistance—and like an ocean, it’s as violent as it is beautiful. All the Hearts You Eat is here to rip a hole in your world.” Lindsay King-Miller, author of The Z Word


“Piper writes about the big, overarching things here—love, loss, desire, belonging—with the same nuance and precision she brings to this novel’s haunting, braided narratives. All the Hearts You Eat has the insistent pull of a fever dream.” Keith Rosson, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of Fever House


“All the Hearts You Eat paints monsters from the whispers of the waves, scrying secrets from bittersweet death poetry. Piper examines with uncompromising force the ghosts we leave behind when sorrow is unclaimed by the sea but still eroded by its waves. Utterly haunting.” Sofia Ajram, author of Coup de Grâce


“Sad, furious, hopeful and absolutely lovely.” Hildur Knútsdóttir, author of The Night Guest


“Weaving classic horror elements into a powerful tale of trans solidarity and the life-sucking toll of being forced back into the closet, Piper cements her place in the queer horror canon.” Publishers Weekly, starred review


“All the Hearts You Eat is filled with mesmerizing and breathless words that explore violent pleasures, painful desires, insatiable thirst, sacrifices in hopes of acceptance and belonging, scraping both across and under the skin with effortless lyricism—a novel with an alluring pull, like following a hypnotic trail, and by the time you notice how deep you’ve tread, it’s already far too late.” Ai Jiang, Bram Stoker® and Nebula Award-winning author of Linghun


“Like Twin Peaks bred with The Lost Boys, unsettling and angry and still full of so much love and life. absolutely made me a Hailey Piper fan from the word go.” Logan Ashley, author of Old Wounds


“Intense and visceral… A great choice for fans of original takes on the vampire trope like Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton, the queer, teen found family of Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin, or the grief and cosmic horror of This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno.” –Booklist


Piper’s proven she can do everything from deeply human ghost stories to all-out cosmic horror madness—Paste Magazine


“Like Miyazaki, there is a profound sense of sadness at the heart of All the Hearts You Eat that is never quite covered over by the larger-than-life plot events, or the young protagonists’ best intentions.”—FanFiAddict


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Thrillingly original. Piper deftly stitches threads of vulnerability, existential anxiety, and complex friendship power dynamics into a feverish, nail-biting, writhing-in-your-seat nightmare. A juicy horror tale you’ll want to sink your teeth into, before it sinks its teeth into you.
—Rachel Harrison, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Return


Hailey Piper’s prose crackles sharply and thrums with the mesmerizing pulse of a passing summer storm. A vivid, imaginative, and chillingly tense novel, A Light Most Hateful cements Piper as one of the most spectacularly fierce talents working in horror fiction today. — Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke


A Light Most Hateful is filled with mesmerizing language that breathes cosmic chaos, abandonment, loneliness, and desperation. Piper explores the fear of betrayal by those closest to us and of the meaning of friendship and loyalty in the face of disparity. This is a book where the landscapes are upturned and roaming, where memories come to life as nightmares, and beckons us with the question, what if you can control the act of creation and uncreation? Piper has fabricated a darkly glorious woven reality where everything might exist and unexist simultaneously. — Ai Jiang, Nebula and Locus awatrd finalist, and author of Linghun


Every moment is earned, every monster deserving of its time in the spotlight. In short, it’s a perfect primer for the beautifully dark world of Hailey Piper’s fiction, as well as a must-read for longtime fans.—Paste Magazine


If Neil Gaiman, Mary Shelley, and Shirley Jackson could collaborate, this stunning novel would be the result.—Library Journal, Best Horror of the Year 2023


The story twists reader expectations into knots, flipping genre conventions and connecting unlikely elements to make something truly singular. The result is an ambitious, genre-shredding novel that takes big swings and, improbably, lands every one… Piper’s prose crackles with energy and wit as it ties the novel’s wilder excesses together into a story at once comfortingly familiar in its themes and cosmically alien in its execution. — Publishers Weekly, starred review


A stunning novel that purposefully plays with genre conventions and centers love, even as it actively terrifies readers to their core, much like recent novels from Victor LaValle, Rachel Eve Moulton, and Chuck Tingle. — Library Journal starred review


It is completely wild, a little ridiculous in a fun way […] and plenty gross, too. Buckle up and enjoy the ride! — Bookriot


Shades of Barker, Gaiman and King dance through A Light Most Hateful, but the horror is pure Hailey Piper. A devastating storm of unnatural origin? Check. A contagion of zombies infected with their own memories? Check. Nightmares begetting nightmares in a fractal convocation? Check. A friendship between two girls as opposite as they are alike, tested by fear and desire and destiny? Double and triple check! Piper envelops the reader in a tempest of terror from the first page to the last. It’s as close to a thrill ride as you can get between two covers. Don’t miss it! — David Demchuk, award-winning author of The Bone Mother and RED X


Piper has spawned a slick mess of family dynamics. — Polly Hall, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Taxidermist’s Lover


Piper’s prose will leave you breathless in this stormy, jagged little pill of a novel about love and hate and acceptance in a world gone mad. A furiously compelling and propulsive read. — Gemma Amor, Bram Stoker award-nominated author of Dear Laura


What has sprouted out from Hailey Piper’s head is a fully-formed goddess of a novel, equal parts terrifying, awe-inspiring, and downright worshipful. I’m still scorched by A Light Most Hateful, even after closing its pages, blinded by its brilliance. — Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters


A LIGHT MOST HATEFUL begins with a scream, and that’s appropriate given you’ll be screaming your way through this swirling, phantasmagoric, unpredictable nightmare. Escaping the suburbs has never been so harrowing. — Nat Cassidy, author of Mary: An Awakening of Terror and Nestlings


Eerie and visceral, Piper combines the supernatural with the deeply human in a novella that explores the many faces of horror, at once haunting and familiar, yet utterly new.
—A.C. Wise, Nebula Award-nominated author of Wendy, Darling


Hailey Piper boards a starship where the most terrifying part of the voyage isn’t the cargo hold full of corpses, the tentacled creatures that stalk the pod bays, or their mysterious, otherworldly master, but the depths of the human psyche. An intriguing blend of b-movie scifi and incisive, soul-baring reflection.
—Adam Cesare, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Clown in a Cornfield


With surgical precision, Hailey Piper’s stories slice through the skin, fat, and muscle of her characters’ lives, all the way down to the living bone and what is written on it. In terms of their prose. their wit, their insight, their compassion, their terror, these are the sharpest of stories. Read them, but be prepared for the cuts.
—John Langan, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Fisherman


Every story has this incredible balance of being dark and scary but also wildly charming! It’s magic…
—Rachel Harrison, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Return


Hailey Piper is at the top of her game, literally machete-chopping through new territory
—Cemetery Dance


A voice to be reckoned with.
—Tor Nightfire