Rating: 5 out of 5 Hailey Piper’s horror/science fiction novel Queen of Teeth takes several concepts and images that I have always found irredeemably cheesy and silly, and turns them into something exciting, heartbreaking, inspiring, and profound. Yaya is a…
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Short Take: “The Worm and His Kings,” Hailey Piper
Rating: 5 out of 5 Hailey Piper’s The Worm and His Kings begins on the streets: Monique Lane, 20 years old, is homeless. Most nights she beds down next to a spot she calls the empty place, where people instinctively…
Review: “Benny Rose the Cannibal King,” Hailey Piper
Pros: Absolutely, horrifyingly delightful! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Hailey Piper’s Benny Rose, the Cannibal King pulls the reader into the town of Blackwood, Vermont, circa 1987. (This, in fact, was exactly when I was in high school…