This Is My Body

Lindsay King-Miller is the author of The Z Word and Ask A Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls. Her fiction has appeared in The Fiends in the Furrows, Tiny Nightmares, The Jewish Book of Horror, Fireside Fiction, Baffling magazine, and numerous other publications. She lives in Denver with her partner and their two children.

A CrimeReads New and Upcoming Horror Novel to Look Out for This Summer (and Beyond)“The line between homage and pastiche is sharp and dangerous, but King-Miller walks it with grace in This Is My Body, a demonic possession story in the vein of The Exorcist. . . . . Effective, straightforward storytelling and great attention to emotions make this sad and often horrific novel King-Miller’s finest work to date.”—Gabino Iglesias, New York Times“Tackling religious drama and shame, this release definitely has this queer Exorcist fan’s interest piqued.”—Autostraddle“This Is My Body rounds the horror bases with aplomb—gore, infestation, claustrophobia, house that shifts around you—and brings it all home with a satisfying emotional climax and a fun little kicker of an epilogue.”—Reactor“By turns exhilarating and disgusting, moving and monstrous. . . . Fans of queer horror looking for a fresh take on a familiar trope will be hooked.”—Publishers Weekly“King-Miller’s story combines the shame around religiosity and sexuality and pulls it into a fresh interpretation of the traditional demonic possession story, which will appeal to fans of Shirley Jackson and Alma Katsu.”—Booklist“This Is My Body is simply one of the finest works of familial horror I have ever encountered. This book is hideously satisfying.”—Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home“A brutal, brilliant story of motherhood, memory, and religion, deviously simple and terribly clever. King-Miller has become one of my must-read authors.”—Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Cuckoo“A cathartic tangle of love, rage, and religious trauma. . . . King-Miller explores the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters, bodily autonomy, and generational curses in an inventive possession tale unlike any you’ve read.”—Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Teeth“A necessary and unique possession tale, This Is My Body looks religious trauma and queerness straight in the eye. Intense and gory! A great exploration of the spectrum of belief, both worldly and otherworldly.”—Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley and Crafting for Sinners“This Is My Body blends faith and body horror into a queer cosmic romp that would make any exorcist blush. In this fresh possession epic, a marriage made in hell between David Cronenberg and William Peter Blatty, Lindsay King-Miller discovers there are entire chasms left to be purified within the human soul.”—Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes“Heart-wrenching, propulsive, and always scare-the-fuck-out-of-you terrifying, This Is My Body expertly charts the endless interiors of pain and trauma to uncover the raw, screaming humanity waiting deep within. Lindsay King-Miller’s latest is a vicious, unrelenting tour de force that will rip your guts clean out and show them to you. An absolute triumph.”—Matthew Lyons, author of A Mask of Flies and A Black and Endless Sky“Gay, gory, and genuine—King-Miller uses her gift for lived-in characters and settings to effortlessly drag the reader through hell and out the other side.”—Mattie Lubchansky, author of Boys Weekend“A queer, thorny, deeply satisfying novel about religious trauma, the horrors of parenting a middle schooler, the forked tongue of memory, and the dangers of trying to go home again. This Is My Body flips the conventional possession narrative on its head. You think you know what kind of story this is? Oh, sweet child—you have no idea.”—Emily C. Hughes, author of Horror for Weenies“When I pick up a Lindsay King-Miller book, I know to clear my schedule for the night, because I won’t want to stop turning the pages, nor stop underlining its sharp, musical prose.”—Cynthia Gómez, author of “The Shivering World”