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"By far the best book I've read this year.” ―Roxane Gay
#1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture) • A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library Journal, Paste, and CrimeReads) • A Top 10 Horror Debuts of 2022 (Booklist) • A Goodreads Choice Award nominee for Best Horror • A Best Book of 2022 (Tor.com) • A Best SFF Book of 2022 (Gizmodo) • A Top 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature (The New York Times Style Magazine).
Manhunt is an explosive post-apocalyptic novel that follows trans women and trans men on a grotesque journey of survival.
“A modern horror masterpiece.” ―Carmen Maria Machado
Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.
Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: other people aren't safe.
After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of survivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics―all while outrunning packs of feral men, and their own demons.
"A filthy, furious delight."―The New Yorker
- Print length304 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTor Trade
- Publication dateFebruary 22, 2022
- Dimensions5.4 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-101250794641
- ISBN-13978-1250794642
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“Manhunt is sublime horror – gory, impeccably written, a condemnation and a celebration with a cast of incredibly flawed, deeply interesting characters.... By far the best book I've read this year. You should read it and share it with all your friends and enemies.” ―Roxane Gay
“Disgustingly rendered and brilliantly imagined…. A fresh, stomach-turning take on gendered apocalypse.” ―NPR
"A filthy, furious delight; within its tense, gruesome premise live roundly human characters, with big, unwieldy emotions. It’s a shockingly tender exploration of genders and bodies, of violence as a part of nature, of the way love is a tool of survival." ―The New Yorker
"It’s a book that almost no one will finish without finding something that shocks, appalls, or angers them, but anyone with the balls to tackle a truly transgressive horror novel will find much to savor."―Esquire
"The book is timely, visceral, grotesque, unflinching, and unexpectedly fun, full of sex and gore and messy, beautiful humanity."―Vulture
“A grisly, gory, glorious work of splatterpunk social horror ― and the perfect introduction to both subgenres.” ―Bustle
"The most unique perspective on one of the most well-trodden genres of the past several years, Manhunt takes no prisoners in its twisted tale of transgender and non-binary people in a post-apocalyptic wasteland."―Buzzfeed
"A masterful genre-bending horror novel, Manhunt is a must read."―Observer
“Felker-Martin’s horror chops are top-notch.... A ballsy postapocalyptic tale.” ―Publishers Weekly
“A sensual, tender, honest, and inspirational story of imperfect but well-meaning people banding together in an attempt to not only survive but thrive.” ―Library Journal, STARRED review
“An audacious dystopian story ... destined to be one of the year’s most talked-about novels.” ―Electric Lit
“Highly recommended for those looking for particularly upsetting or disturbing horror fiction.” ―Booklist, STARRED review
“Reading this book was like tonguing a live wire; I loved every moment and I still haven’t recovered. As erotic as it is devastating, as brilliant as it is visceral, Manhunt is a modern horror masterpiece.” ―Carmen Maria Machado, bestselling author of In the Dream House
“It’s beautifully written, a barbed hook that will dig deep and split you open.” ―Cassandra Khaw, USA Today bestselling author of author of Nothing But Blackened Teeth
“An iconic masterpiece of modern fiction. Dark and vicious. Visceral and uniquely devastating....I loved every second of it.” ―Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since Last We Spoke
“Felker-Martin can write: Manhunt expertly drops one political target after another, breaks your heart with nearly every character, and keeps up a relentless velocity― all while just being plain fun as hell.” ―Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby
“Manhunt is a celebration of trans people and a literary blitzkrieg against TERFocracy. Timely and necessary, this is extreme horror that says something. Listen to it.” ―Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home
“A unique, brain-searing nightmare that's full-on teeth and claws, and all heart too.” ―Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth
“Taut, visceral, terrifying. A gripping tale of trans survival, rendered in Felker-Martin’s exquisite, uncompromising prose. You can’t turn the pages fast enough.” ―David Demchuk, author of Red X
“Every ten years or so, a horror novel comes along that pushes the genre to terrifying new heights. Manhunt is such a novel. An emotional buzzsaw of a book that left me shaken.” ―Brian Keene, bestselling author of The Rising and End of the Road
“Manhunt is a razor-sharp novel, and Felker-Martin is here to raise the bar for post-apocalyptic fiction. Prepare to take a bite that will stain your jaws red.” ―Meg Elison, author of The Book of the Unnamed Midwife
“Equal parts terrifying and transgressive, every page of this thrilling novel drips with blood, ichor, and other bodily fluids. Manhunt will grab you by the throat on page one and won't let go until the end.” ―Lincoln Michel, author of The Body Scout
“A must-read for fans of post-apocalyptic horror. Felker-Martin's prose is stellar, her characters are compelling, and her novel's pace is tremendous.” ―Lucy A. Snyder, Bram Stoker-Award winning author
"Thrilling, gory, disgusting, and wonderfully cathartic, Manhunt is a manifesto against every gender apocalypse stereotype, creating space for trans and nonbinary people in the biology of transhumanism by eating the competition whole."―Gizmodo
"Manhunt is also the rare case of a book that absolutely lives up to the tremendous hype and infamy surrounding it."―Paste Magazine
"Manhunt is as gruesome and violent as it is empathetic and complex; a vital reimagining of how these narratives are constructed and produced, complete with an all-out war against militant TERFs and moments of yearning that are deeply painful." ―The Mary Sue
"Manhunt is the sexiest, angriest, most deeply felt, and most urgent take on the zombie apocalypse I've ever read. It's a breathless wonder."―Emily V Gordon
“The feel-bad classic of the decade. A pitiless, nerve-shredding descent into Hell; as ruthless as it is perceptive ... Felker-Martin writes the best queer horror on the market.” ―April Daniels, author of the Nemesis trilogy
“What a refresher it is to read Manhunt, where trans characters don't just take center stage, but are imperfect and complex, and the horror around them and their reactions feel realistic and urgent. Manhunt is brutal and empathetic. This book is dripping with visceral imagery and vulnerability.” ―Archie Bongiovanni, author of A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
“I hope that as many people as humanly possible read Manhunt. It gives you a deep gift of human understanding and empathy through nearly indescribable body horror and mortal terror.” ―Felix Biederman, New York Times bestselling author of The Chapo Guide to Revolution
“Out of the exuberantly gory splatterfest emerges a tender celebration of women and women’s bodies, no matter how reviled and monsterized, in all their capacity for pleasure, resistance, and life.” ―Maya Deane, author of Wrath Goddess Sing
“Humane and pissed off and funny and real and acerbic and tragic. It does everything a book can do, but still has time to be a full-on horror novel with some of the most grueling sequences I've ever read, ever.” ―Adam Cesare, author of Clown in a Cornfield and Video Night
“Manhunt is a vital, angry re-evaluation of the zombie apocalypse narrative, putting the spotlight on characters usually left behind and shamefully ignored. Vicious and charming, absolutely not to be missed.” ―Trevor Henderson
“Manhunt is an intense, pulse-pounding thriller that is equal parts sapphic, sophisticated, and stylish. Felker-Martin's prose is volcanic and visceral.” ―David Gallaher, author of High Moon and Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon
“A raw horror-filled mouthful that will stretch your jaws to aching while you struggle feverishly to take yet another bite, and another, and another…A must-read, PERIOD.” ―Jordan Shiveley, author of Hot Singles In Your Area
"This is a debut that literally throws open the door and announces its arrival by making sure the room knows its intentions to stay. Manhunt is what the future of this genre looks like. Take note." ―Grimdark Magazine
“A violent, blood-drenched corrective to a rash of ill-considered gender plague novels by cis authors.” ―Apartment Therapy
“I dub this the great TERF-pocalypse novel....I cannot underscore enough how much I love this novel.” ―CrimeReads
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- Publisher : Tor Trade (February 22, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250794641
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250794642
- Item Weight : 10.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.4 x 0.8 x 8.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #50,546 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Gretchen Felker-Martin is a horror author and film critic living in Massachusetts.
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It's extremely character- and theme-driven, and rich in both respects. The characters I adore, to an extent even the villains, and I missed them when the story came to a close. Even the setting feels like a character unto itself. Thematically, it's like looking at the real world in a funhouse mirror that magnifies things we don't see or don't want to see, and very real pain, fears, and experiences. It's almost totally non-fantastical as the zombie-plague and gender-plague subgenres go: it has its one big diversion from the real world, the t. rex virus, and that's it. The rest is just what do you mean this isn't real life, to the point that a great deal of what's in it has direct real-world inspiration. It uses the tools of the horror genre not in service of the genre itself, but as means of expression.
As far as being horror goes, it does a lot of interesting things with it. The t. rex virus is a powerful metaphor that does a great deal of heavy lifting in expression of the story's themes, and it actually sells its fate-worse-than-death for what it is, though I may be biased. It evokes dread not only in the sense of fear of death, but of fear of what you will live through. And oh can it evoke fear of death. Even in those occasions where the perspective character is a villain that you'd think you shouldn't empathize with, it makes you feel their fear.
I do feel a need to note that the premise of the book is not killing cis women, as some comments have claimed. That's bull. The premise is the protagonists trying to survive in a world that doesn't want them in it. It does feature truly extreme violence that I might compare to DOOM or Mortal Kombat, but that violence is directed at everyone in it, and it has no interest in glorifying violence against cis women as a demographic nor against noncombatants. Even in its portrayal of TERF villains, it gives them a fairer shake and is more humanizing than it was obligated to be.
It does make a serious break with a certain orthodoxy in feminist literature, however: it does not portray a world ostensibly run by women as necessarily being a utopia or even with women coming together in unity. It instead portrays a world where the worst women in it seized control in the power vacuum after T-day, and that to a large extent has the same old violent and exploitative hierarchies, just under new management. Some consider portraying women behaving as badly as men to be offensive or even somehow misogynistic. I don't. It's actually very interesting.
so yeah read this book it rules
I might hesitate to recommend it broadly to readers, as it can be quite triggering in so many ways. Especially to readers who are not trans and are not likely to read other trans literature: it might paint trans people in too dark a light.
There were also some plot holes that bugged me, and I think it could have been a bit longer/slower, deeper, and darker. Taking a bit more time to explore dark trains of thought, and answering some of my burning biology questions (why isn't there more frequent self-surgery? how do the balls work?) would have made this book perfect.
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On one end of the spectrum is what someone on twitter called the "everyone is nice to the trans girl" story. Often about an egg hatching and coming out, it has cuddles and fluff and affection the writer fears they'll never get in real life and the only tears are cathartic ones cried into the hugs of someone who loves you and is patient with you.
On the other end of the spectrum are stories with trigger warnings as long as my arm, with existential horror and primal fears and often times outright gore, electricity run through barbed wire and lashed out at the softest most hidden parts of our mind, where it being conventionally enjoyable (as much as they might also be that) simply isn't the main appeal as opposed to giving voice and putting words to the welts and wounds and sores upon our souls. The book is overwhelmingly on the latter end of the spectrum, and with that it perfectly summarises whether this book is for you.
At least it does if you're trans, and in a way this makes me a bad reviewer for the book: ultimately, I was approaching it as transgender fiction first and a horror/zombie/splatter punk book second if at all, largely because I haven't really read much of those genres so I can't really say how it holds up in those regards (it was actually less gory that I was expecting, but that might be because of how it was built up to me and in any case it is still gory enough that I advise you don't make the same mistake I did and read it while eating).
All that said, I thought I'd end up reading it slowly over a few weeks but instead finished it in one, and for all the caveats I have put above it still deserves all 5 of the stars I gave it. It's often funny, enjoyable in the conventional way as much as the less conventional way I previously mentioned above and whilst it probably would have had me obsessed with it if it was the first of its kind I had read even as one of the ones that came after that it still left my soul-wounds sated and satisfied at someone putting into words what they could only animal growl at the back of my mind. And whilst I didn't end up obsessed with it, I just know that some other trans girl will, and I am very happy for her.
The premise, being trapped in a world that dosn't want you there but is willing to exploit you for it's own ends, a core part of living as trans in the west today. Being dependent on the willingness of the cis people around just to be allowed to continue existing, regardless of how much you fight for it.
The body horror, the butch experience beleiving you'll never pass and that even those that want you will never see you as the person you are. Injuries that on cis guy would just leave a cool scar twisting your appearance.
I read this book shortly after it was first released and it has stuck with me ever since, as one of the most horrific and relatable books I have ever read. I could carry on detailing each and every moment in the book and how it not only reflected my own experiences in a dark and twisted way, but how it made me realise insecurities that I had not come to terms with, but there's no need.
If you're trans you should have already read this book, and if you're cis it's probably the best way to understand the experience.
The characters feel so real, they are written with such raw honesty. I have never seen trans characters written in such a way. Often I've seen writers avoid the messier, "unacceptable" aspects of trans characters for fear of being misunderstood or distorted by unfair critics who judge first and look for reasons after. Felker-Martin does not shy away from this, and in fact seems to lean into it. The characters are laid bare, their most problematic traits exposed, making them seem deeply real and human. The constant scrutiny of trans women is explored and spat at.
The subject matter is gruesome and exposed in an impressive level of disgusting detail. Not for the faint of heart. The initial chapters outline most of the horrors that are later explored in detail, however the Felker-Martin constantly finds ways to surprise and terrify, while balancing horror upon horror out nicely with dark humour, and some honest, messy sex scenes.
Every paragraph of this book is beautifully crafted. I cannot stop talking about it to everyone in my life, even after talking about it for hours once a week with my book club.
I finally finished it, bawled my eyes out, then almost immediately flipped back to the first page to reread it.
This book is *amazing*. It's incredibly uncomfortable to read, obviously, as it is full of visceral horror and the protagonists are, like real human, horny and messy af. But Manhunt is an exceptional, beautifully-crafted view of a dystopia in which transphobes' talking points are extrapolated to their logical democidal conclusion.
I will buy every book this wonderful woman writes.
Plot: the author does a fantastic job taking a current hot topic and shedding light on it in a relatable and engaging way. The metaphors and themes throughout this book are perfect. The author truly gives trans people a platform and an amazing starting point in modern literature.
Writing: the author wrote in a way that you couldn't put the book down. It's fast paced but not without strong writing and clever jokes and symbolism throughout.
The Characters: Its impossible for your heart not to break after reading and feeling the pain that each of those characters go through in their unique but all too similar hardships.
This book should be at the top of a lot of charts.













