May 19, 2025
When We Were Brutal, a new novella by Gwendolyn Kiste and part of our Killer VHS Series, is coming in 2027…
The eleventh title in our Killer VHS Series!
In When We Were Brutal, two best friends reckon with toxic bonds, growing up and growing older, and what it means to be the so-called monster lurking in your own town.
Gwendolyn Kiste (she/they) is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, Boneset & Feathers, Pretty Marys All in a Row, and The Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, CrimeReads, Titan Books, and The Lineup. She’s a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror Award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Shirley Jackson, Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, Dragon, and Ohio Book Awards.
Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at gwendolynkiste.com
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