The Unworthy

The Unworthy – A Chilling Literary Horror from the Author of Tender Is the Flesh

🕯️💀 A Dystopian Convent. A World in Ruin. A Woman Trapped in Secrets. 💀🕯️

From the acclaimed author of Tender Is the Flesh comes The Unworthy—a gripping, psychological horror novel that blends dystopian survival, religious extremism, and feminist horror into a story that is both haunting and unshakable.

📜 Inside the convent, the narrator is nothing. Outside, the world is worse.

A woman writes her story in ink, dirt, and even blood, documenting her life as one of the Unworthy—the lowest rank in the Sacred Sisterhood, a secretive and brutally hierarchical religious order. She yearns to ascend to the Enlightened, to finally be seen, be chosen, be safe.

🌎 Beyond the convent walls, the world has collapsed.
The seas have swallowed cities. Technology is gone. Survivors fight to exist in a lawless, dying world. But inside the convent, order is maintained—through obedience, silence, and punishment.

👁️ A new arrival changes everything.
When a stranger breaches the convent’s walls, she forces the narrator to question everything—her past, the truth about the Enlightened, and the horrors buried within the Sacred Sisterhood.

🔥 What happens when a woman is truly deemed worthy? And at what cost?

💀 A terrifying and thought-provoking exploration of

• Religious fanaticism & ideological control
• The cost of obedience & survival
• A world ravaged by climate collapse

📖 Perfect for fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, Catherine House, and feminist dystopian horror, The Unworthy is an unflinching look at power, submission, and what happens when the truth is too dangerous to see.