Hungerstone

A rich and daring reimagining that brings the beating heart of Carmilla to life again. Hungerstone is a delicious tribute to the inherent horrors of womanhood and the desperate and exquisite vulgarity of desire. This is everything I dream of in a novel. * Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth *
With writing both evocative and enchanting,Hungerstone is a horrifyingly delectable novel. A celebration of female appetite and agency, Dunn's gothic reimagining of Carmilla is ravenous, righteous and utterly sublime -- Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author of GIRL, GODDESS, QUEEN
Hungerstone is an intoxicating and vivid take on the gothic novel. Sensual and vicious, Lenore's devastating story of self discovery, betrayal and power feels like one for the ages -- Hannah Kaner, Sunday Times bestselling author of GODKILLER
Hungerstone is an extraordinary book: a dark, sensuous, gothic story of female appetite, ravenous desire and insatiable rage.A blood-drenched, glittering jewel of a novel that I absolutely devoured. * Jennifer Saint *
HUNGERSTONE grabbed me body and soul. From the first page, I was bewitched by its heady mix of danger and desire. HUNGERSTONE brims with passion, longing and authenticity evoking the feminist struggle for agency within patriarchal Victorian constructs. Gothic, sensual, and captivating, I could not put it down. * Anya Bergman, international bestselling author of The Witches of Vardo *
A fabulous Gothic feast of a novel which is so gripping I genuinely struggled to put it down. This book has everything - a compulsive plot, fascinating characters, and a world so dark and atmospheric it makes the real one look drab. It is billed as a sapphic vampire novel but is so much richer and stranger than this. Lenore is one of the most compelling and morally complex characters I have encountered in recent years, and the evil Kat Dunn describes in the human world was brilliantly portrayed, acting as a dizzying foil to the darkness of the Vampire realm. It is a book which will upend your expectations of the genre and leave you wanting more. I was so sad to reach the last page! * Elodie Harper, bestselling author of THE WOLF DEN *
A sumptuous delight, Hungerstone combines gothic thrills with a feminist exploration of what it means to become estranged from our desires, and what it might mean if we let ourselves be whole. I feasted on it. * Jessica Moor *
Kat Dunn repaints the classic story of Carmilla in the boldest, bloodiest colours. Hungerstone is decadent, brilliant, triumphant and I devoured it. * Sarah Underwood, author of Lies We Sing to the Sea *
Richly imagined and utterly compelling, this story's fierce heart beats like a drum, calling to every woman who has ever had to deny herself. A dark, gothic delight. * Hester Musson *
Sensual, claustrophobic and hungry, Hungerstone is a deliciously smart novel of fury and want. Dunn reimagines the classic Carmilla story in the gloom and gore of the Industrial Revolution, as one woman considers the life she has, and the one this intoxicating woman offers her. Exhilarating right to the last page. * Lizzie Huxley-Jones *
Deliciously dark and atmospheric, Hungerstone throbs with the taste of the forbidden. This is a novel that asks what might happen when we reach for those places inside ourselves previously kept under lock and key. Dunn's Carmilla is as alive and alluring today as Le Fanu's was in 1872. I devoured this breathtakingly original novel. * Emily Critchley *
A dream of a gothic. Combines all the best of Carmilla and would make Edgar Allan Poe jealous. Reading Kat Dunn is like finding treasure. * Sarah Rees Brennan, USA Today and Sunday Times #1 bestseller *
A devilishly delicious read that embraces female rage in all its blood-soaked glory.Hungerstone, like Carmilla herself, is both horrifying and enchanting. I couldn't put it down. * Frances White, Sunday Times bestselling author of Voyage of the Damned *
The most seductive, darkly captivating novel about female oppression, freedom & desire. Wonderfully written with a brilliant sense of claustrophobia & growing rage. * Caroline Lea *
Stunningly vivid and brimming with desire and female rage, Hungerstone is sapphic reimagining of Carmilla that demands to be devoured in one sitting. * Elle Machray, author of REMEMBER, REMEMBER *