‘Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going’ GILLIAN FLYNN''Gripping … Bravura storytelling'' VOGUE''A blood-soaked, gothic nightmare'' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a nineteenth-century women''s asylum, and a terrifying doctor who wants to change the world.Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Dr Silas Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics. There, his work focuses on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to grotesque modes of experimentation.Based on authentic historical documents, Butcher is a nightmare voyage through the darkest regions of the American psyche.''A ghastly and harrowing page-turner'' STEPHEN KING, via X''A triumph of style and brio’FINANCIAL TIMES''Terrifying'' FLAUNT''Vividly and compellingly-drawn'' iNEWS
