You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Pre-order September 9, 2025)

You Weren't Meant to Be Human by Andrew Joseph White (Pre-order September 9, 2025) 

Alien meets Midsommar in this visceral debut adult horror from award-winning author Andrew Joseph White—about identity, survival, and the monstrous cost of belonging.

In the hollowed valleys of Appalachia, hives of worms and flies root themselves in the dark. For the price of loyalty—and a steady supply of corpses—they promise salvation. Most accept. None refuse.

Crane is grateful. In the hive, he has been given a chance to transition, to silence his voice forever, to live a life unbroken by the world outside. He has even found Levi, a ruthless ex-Marine who treats him like a man—most of the time. But when Crane becomes pregnant, and the hive demands the child’s birth no matter the cost, his desperate bid for freedom will unravel the fragile community that once saved him.

You Weren’t Meant to Be Human is a queer body-horror odyssey, pulsing with dread and intimacy. A brutal, beautiful meditation on identity and transformation, it sits alongside the work of Stephen Graham Jones and Eric LaRocca, daring to ask: What part of yourself would you sacrifice to survive?