- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 222
- ISBN
- 9781951971410
- Price
- $18.95
- Publication Date
- April 28, 2026
Blood Year Daughter
G.G. Silverman
In G.G. Silverman’s debut fairytale-horror collection The Blood Year Daughter, a woman builds husbands out of gravel and slaughterhouse feathers, two sisters eat cinnamon-scented pieces of their mother, and a charming doctor’s murdered brides whisper warnings to his newest wife.
Silverman’s women and girls escape smiling captors, draw blood to curse their loved ones, and wield fear to defend themselves in post-apocalyptic worlds. They ignore the insults of rotting Elderwomen filled with flies, resist marriage proposals, and fill themselves—joyfully—with multitudes of snakes. They are murdered and choose to live again.
Drawing from folktales, Silverman’s Italian roots, and killers both real and imagined, The Blood Year Daughter’s stories recall Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado. Spare and glittering as a spiderweb, sharp as a needle through a husband’s nose, they establish G.G. Silverman as a formidable voice in feminist horror and magical realism.
Praise for Blood Year Daughter
“Devastating, dreamlike, and deeply beautiful, these horror stories are filled with aching revenge and undeniable redemption. The Blood Year Daughter is a spectacular and bloody star shooting across the sky. Highly, highly recommended.” —Gwendolyn Kiste, four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Haunting of Velkwood and Reluctant Immortals
“A gorgeous and gothic collection of tales, filled with feral women, witches, the ghosts of drowned girls, and the beating hearts of the forgotten. In this lyrical debut, the uncanny and the awe-inspiring sing from the pages. This book is a siren’s song, calling us toward a deeper understanding of what it means to be human and what it means to love.” —Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World
“An astonishing collection. This is large-caliber fairy tale horror, fiction that lands the reader in faraways crackling with sex, violence, and terrifyingly raw life. If, as Peter and Iona Opie once argued, a feature of traditional fairy tales is that they are ‘unbelievable,’ Silverman has reengineered the genre to turn tradition on its head. These stories are grisly, golden, and glorious, ringing out, sentence after intoxicating sentence, with enthusiastic surrender to their own mysterious source.” —Hugh Sheehy, author of Design Flaw and The Invisibles
“This collection is creepy, knife-sharp and captivating. These sentences and images hover like ghosts over original and beautiful stories entangled with threads of fairytale, horror and magical-realism.” —Ramona Ausubel, author of Awayland
“From the first sentence—‘all the mother’s milk ran red that year’—these stories startle, move, and provoke. They speak the kind of truth only the fantastic can reveal. Fans of Kelly Link and Carmen Maria Machado will love The Blood Year Daughter.” —Ayşe Papatya Bucak, author of The Trojan War Museum
