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Summary

A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year • A CBC Books Pick for Best Canadian Fiction • Aurora Award Nominee for Best Novel

A terrifying supernatural entity haunts Toronto’s Gay Village in this modern horror classic—now with essays by Gretchen Felker-Martin and Anthony Oliveira.

In 1984, a young gay man vanishes without a trace, leaving behind a community of friends and lovers desperate for answers. Instead, they face everything from casual indifference to outright prejudice. As decades pass, more men vanish, revealing a terrifying, centuries-old demonic presence at the heart of the disappearances.

Interspersed throughout, the author shares autobiographical vignettes: his earliest brushes with death and fear, his observations on queer culture and the horror genre, on representation and erasure, culminating in an elegiac and brilliantly woven narrative that blends fact and fiction, and has already been heralded as one of the great horror novels of the twenty-first century.

“One of the greatest horror novels of all time, period.”—Samuel J. Miller