KYLE WAKEFIELD
QUEER HORROR | AUTHOR OF QUEER HORROR
Kyle Wakefield has the spirit of an 18th-century romanticist not in the Poet-Laureate-to-the-King way but in the coughing-blood-into-a-handkerchief way. He disappeared into the Scottish wilderness alone one winter and came back with two scars on his chest which he claims are from top surgery, but are secretly entry points for the grapefruit-sized alien octopus controlling him parasitically. (It went in on the left-hand side first, but there weren't any brains there, so it had to try again.)Kyle is currently sensing the Bit Paradox of referring to the octopus in the third person.
THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH
6TH SEPTEMBER 2024
A TRANS FAUSTIAN PACT IN MEDIEVAL ITALYSole De Gasinis drowns his grief in wine and buries his hatred of his body in twisted sculptures. When, one drunken night on the beach, God orders him to rebuild his village's church, he knows he wasn't chosen for his piety.Instead, he and God make a deal. If Sole rebuilds the church, God will give him the body of a man.As Sole works in a frenzy for salvation, lifelong friendships decay, a village united to tear down its church fractures into pariahs and zealots, and power and grief reshape the prophet into a tyrant. Grief for a boy he fell in love with ten years ago, who claimed to be a virgin birth, who died in agony in the church crypt when the God inside him wanted out--and whose monstrous remnant Sole must commune with for every piece of his prize.
CONTENT WARNINGS
THE CHURCH OF THE MOUNTAIN OF FLESH is a bleak, brutal horror novel with an unrepentantly evil protagonist. Inspirational messages, self-actualisation and 'perfect victims' are the industry standard for trans stories for a reason, but expecting the same from this story will hurt you.These content warnings have been approved and added to by a large team of beta readers with a range of lived experiences. If you have further enquiries about any of them, or if you've read the novel and want to add one, please contact Kyle on Twitter or Instagram.Graphic body horror including decay of and movement inside a living body
Graphic gore
Graphic sickness and injury detail including vomiting
Graphic bloody violence including cannibalism
Slow death
Imagery reminiscent of self-harm
Imagery reminiscent of a miscarriage
Healing a lifelong disability against the disabled person’s will
Corrupting, obsessive romance
Explicit sexual content including sadomasochism
Descent of a Catholicism-based religion into cultism
Physical abuse of a child by a parent
Injury of a baby
Death of a parent
Grief
Alcohol abuse
Suicidal ideation
Gender dysphoria
Misgendering and deadnaming
Consumption of rocks, clay, dirt and other non-food items
Catastrophic natural disaster including imagery of people trapped under rubble
Mentioned death of a child
Mentioned suicide attempt by a child
Mentioned traumatic childbirth
Mercy killing of an animal
