This Is My Body

Name: This Is My Body
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lindsay King-Miller
ISBN: 9798228466722

Author: Lindsay King-Miller

Narrator: Krystal Hammond

Unabridged: 10 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 10/04/2025

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Lgbtq+

Synopsis

A gripping, emotional, and darkly funny queer horror novel about family trauma and possession, for fans of Rachel Harrison and Catriona Ward.Single gay mom Brigid always thought that cutting ties with her extremist Catholic family was the best thing she could have done for her daughter, Dylan—and for herself. But when Dylan starts having terrifying fits of unnatural violence, Brigid can’t shake her memories of a girl from her childhood who behaved the same way … until Brigid’s uncle, Father Angus, performed an exorcism.Convinced that her daughter is suffering from demonic possession, Brigid does the thing she told herself she’d never do: she goes home. Father Angus is the worst person she knows, but he’s also the only person who can help her daughter.But as Brigid starts to uncover secrets about Father Angus, that long-ago exorcism, and her family’s past, she realizes that she and Dylan have never been in more danger.This Is My Body is a piercing journey into religious trauma and childhood shame, building towards a heart-pounding twisty climax that will spin your head all the way around.

About Lindsay King-Miller

Lindsay King-Miller is the author of The Z Word and Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls. Her writing has appeared in Glamour, Bitch, Cosmopolitan, Vice, and numerous other publications. She lives in Denver with her partner, their two children, and two very spoiled cats.

About Krystal Hammond

Krystal Hammond is a narrator/writer, cancer survivor, and nonbinary queer human. They grew up in rural North Carolina, nurtured by a steady diet of local Black Beard legends and Civil War-era ghost stories. These nuggets of folktale and myth fostered a lifelong love of storytelling and all the drama that goes with it, resulting in loads of trunk novels and dozens of audiobooks. They have a passion for science fiction, fantasy, and horror, YA and middle grade novels, and romantic comedies.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on August 24, 2025

4.0 Stars As someone who loves possession horror with a religious angle, the premise of this novel was right up my alley. As someone who grew up Catholic, I was immediately pulled with the elements involving the family history. In terms of the other elements, I found the writing to be simple and the c......more

Goodreads review by Chewable Orb on September 08, 2025

This is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller 3.85 rounded up to 4 🔮🔮🔮🔮 orbs Est. Pub. Date: Aug. 5, 2025 Bristlecone, Colorado Orbs Prologue: I have existed longer than I care to remember. You have seen me, for I have proved useful. I am the perfect tool to oppress, torture, and restrain. I loop around my vic......more

Goodreads review by Gyalten Lekden on June 13, 2025

This new twist on possession horror is fast-paced and packs an action-heavy final act. I enjoyed the overall story, I think it is a smart exploration of what it means to be possessed, to be overpowered and puppeted by powers more powerful than you can imagine. The pacing worked for the story, it add......more

Goodreads review by Kurryreads on August 02, 2025

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Goodreads review by ☠︎︎ A.K. ☠︎︎ on July 22, 2025

3/5 ✩ “I am being hollowed out like a Halloween pumpkin. It has eaten my slippery insides, all my seeds are cracked and chewed, my rind is carved into a smile. I’m empty and rotting.” Thank you NetGalley and Quirk for providing me with this ARC. QUICK SUMMARY This Is My Body brings a new spin to the......more

Quotes

“This Is My Body is simply one of the finest works of familial horror I have ever encountered. This book is hideously satisfying.” Sarah Gailey, author of Just Like Home

“A brutal, brilliant story of motherhood, memory, and religion, deviously simple and terribly clever. King-Miller has become one of my must-read authors.” Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Cuckoo

“A cathartic tangle of love, rage, and religious trauma…King-Miller explores the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters, bodily autonomy, and generational curses in an inventive possession tale unlike any you’ve read.” Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Queen of Teeth

“A necessary and unique possession tale, This Is My Body looks religious trauma and queerness straight in the eye. Intense and gory! A great exploration of the spectrum of belief, both worldly and otherworldly.” Jenny Kiefer, author of This Wretched Valley and Crafting for Sinners

“This Is My Body blends faith and body horror into a queer cosmic romp that would make any exorcist blush. In this fresh possession epic, a marriage made in hell between David Cronenberg and William Peter Blatty, Lindsay King-Miller discovers there are entire chasms left to be purified within the human soul.” Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes

“Heart-wrenching, propulsive, and always scare-the-fuck-out-of-you terrifying, This Is My Body expertly charts the endless interiors of pain and trauma to uncover the raw, screaming humanity waiting deep within. Lindsay King-Miller’s latest is a vicious, unrelenting tour de force that will rip your guts clean out and show them to you. An absolute triumph.” Matthew Lyons, author of A Mask of Flies and A Black and Endless Sky

“Gay, gory, and genuine—King-Miller uses her gift for lived-in characters and settings to effortlessly drag the reader through hell and out the other side.” Mattie Lubchansky, author of Boys Weekend

“A queer, thorny, deeply satisfying novel about religious trauma, the horrors of parenting a middle schooler, the forked tongue of memory, and the dangers of trying to go home again. This Is My Body flips the conventional possession narrative on its head. You think you know what kind of story this is? Oh, sweet child—you have no idea.” Emily C. Hughes, author of Horror for Weenies

“When I pick up a Lindsay King-Miller book, I know to clear my schedule for the night, because I won’t want to stop turning the pages, nor stop underlining its sharp, musical prose.” Cynthia Gómez, author of The Shivering World