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Tell Me I'm Worthless Paperback – January 17, 2023
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Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.
“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 Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire, Book Riot, ) • A Most Anticipated Book of the Year (CrimeReads, Vulture, Goodreads, Paste)
“A triumph of transgressive queer horror.” ―Publishers Weekly, STARRED review
Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep.
Memories of that night torment Alice, but when Ila asks her to return to the House, to go past the KEEP OUT sign and over the sick earth where teenagers dare each other to venture, Alice knows she must go.
Together, Alice and Ila must face the horrors that happened there, must pull themselves apart from the inside out, put their differences aside, and try to rescue Hannah, whom the House has chosen to make its own.
Cutting, disruptive, and darkly funny, Tell Me I’m Worthless is a vital work of trans fiction that examines the devastating effects of trauma and how fascism makes us destroy ourselves and each other.
“Easily one of the strongest horror debuts in recent memory.” ―Booklist, STARRED review
Also by Alison Rumfitt:
Brainwyrms
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTor Nightfire
- Publication dateJanuary 17, 2023
- Dimensions5.4 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-101250866235
- ISBN-13978-1250866233
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“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
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- Publisher : Tor Nightfire; Reprint edition (January 17, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250866235
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250866233
- Item Weight : 8.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #92,169 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #27 in LGBTQ+ Horror Fiction (Books)
- #78 in British & Irish Horror
- #773 in Occult Fiction
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Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2023
Honestly this book is a monster and probably won’t ever leave my mind for a long time. Triggers for literally everything 5/5. Be warned
There was so much going on in Tell Me I’m Worthless and some of it, the realities of queer life in the UK and the spiraling way of thinking that extremists use to justify their hatred, was hard to stomach but made this novel feel even more real.
Alison Rumfitt wrote this during the pandemic lockdowns and stated in an interview that she wanted to take her love of gothic horror and haunted houses and use it to explore right wing politics. With a heavy dive into trauma and fascism, Tell Me I’m Worthless will leave you staring at the last page as you take time to process everything that just occurred.
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It is also a horror book, and quite disturbing. Take the content warnings seriously.
First of all, if you are thinking of reading this book please check the trigger warnings because this book is extremely dark. Now on with the review, this book is not a typical horror novel because of the use of language and imagery which is not all around typically used in majority of horror novels. The prose in this book are unmatched and describe the horrific subjects in this book so well, If that makes sense. This book focuses on transphobia and how fascism contributes to this and how it is prominent still in British society. This told through hauntings and ghosts which proceed to haunt Alice, the main character, who is a trans woman. Alice, as mentioned, is a trans woman who is constantly questioning her thoughts and reality which is warped when she entered a haunted house a few years ago with two friends, Ila and Hannah. The whole book really focuses on the fact that society is full of fascists and TERFS, still to this day, and how they cause trans women so much terror and threat and this book used horror to convey this to the reader. This book was incredible and if I say anymore I will give spoilers which I don’t want to do. The only reason I didn’t give this a full 5 stars was because at times I was confused and it took me a little bit to catch up with what the story was saying, so if you are reading this book you need your attention to be solely on it, if that makes sense. Overall, I would highly recommend this book.










