"Alison is like the twisted daughter of Clive Barker and Shirley Jackson. Tell Me I'm Worthless is an intense read full of shocks and buckets of gore. It's brilliant." --Joe Hill, New York Times bestselling author

"A triumph of transgressive queer horror." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

"Easily one of the strongest horror debuts in recent memory." --Booklist, STARRED review

"A gripping, hallucinogenic haunted house novel as righteously angry as it is horrifying, Tell Me I'm Worthless unflinchingly lays bare the personal and cultural scars we wear, endure, and inflict." --Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

"A lush masterpiece. Each page crackles with unnerving texture and unsettling sensation, and I felt chewed and digested by the end. Albion is the scariest haunted house since Hill House." --Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth

"Chilling, bone-deep horror as humane as it is hideous. Tell Me I'm Worthless is ambitious, brutal, and brilliant." --Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt

"An utterly harrowing experience. Like all iconic masterworks of horror fiction, Tell Me I'm Worthless rips you apart and then tenderly pieces you together until you're something entirely new." --Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

"A state-of-the-nation howl hidden inside a horror story. The phrase "novel for our time" is overused, but in this case, it's entirely valid." --Esquire

"Horrifying, provocative, and empathetic yet unflinching." --Vulture

"A hallucinogenic, powerful, transgressive novel that uncompromisingly goes into uncomfortable territory and then wallows there, digging deeper and deeper into the things that make us human, and eventually posits that love might be the way out of the things that trap us the hardest." --Locus

"This amazing work of trans fiction about houses, hauntings, and horrors is going to be the horror book everyone is discussing next year." --Book Riot

"Intense...Rumfitt uses body horror and the tropes of the haunted house skillfully to explore the trans experience in an England full of terfs." --CrimeReads

"Tell Me I'm Worthless is a defiant love letter to the lost, reminding us that win or lose, live or die, we can still save our souls by choosing love." --Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing

"An important book, as transgressive and trans as they come." --Isabel Waidner, author of Sterling Karat Gold and We Are Made of Diamond Stuff

"A sharp and visceral novel which bends the horror genre to its will. Tell Me I'm Worthless holds a gruesome mirror up to the way it feels to live now. I absolutely tore through this book" --Julia Armfield, author of Salt Slow and Our Wives Under the Sea

"Punk in every sense of the word, this is a debut unlike anything you've read before. Rumfitt's horrifying talent shrieks out from every page and rings in your ears for days." --Eliza Clark, author of Boy Parts

"The most startlingly original haunted house story I have read, this is intense, multi-layered and very, very creepy." --Lucie McKnight Hardy, author of Water Shall Refuse Them

"Gripping, unsettling, compulsive, spicy, and, in the end, deeply moving. I loved it." --Molly Smith, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes

"An exquisitely terrifying journey.... Alison Rumfitt's astute observations of today's violent cultural landscape work only too well as a tale of gothic horror. But Tell Me I'm Worthless is also full of beauty, empathy and, ultimately, love. I'll never forget this book." --Frankie Miren, author of The Service

"A deeply affecting and sharp-eyed book, Tell Me I'm Worthless collages and distorts the horror genre to create something truly unique, vastly compelling and very, very frightening." --Alice Ash, author of Paradise Block

"Alison Rumfitt's superlative trans horror picks a fight with the poisonous state of modernity and fearlessly attacks it head on. Vital, thrilling, utterly alive." --Gary Budden, author of London Incognita