Anna Kovatcheva

She Made Herself A Monster (eBook, ePUB)

A gripping and dark feminist novel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Yana hunts monsters. Anka might be one. They'll need each other to survive.

'This exciting, gorgeous novel reminded me why I love vampire stories... I still have chills' Kate Heartfield, author of The Embroidered Book

Yana, a vampire hunter, rides into Koprivci promising salvation. The village's curse has endured for many years and rumour has it that Anka - whose parents died on the night of her birth - is to blame. But enduring the villagers' suspicion is the least of Anka's worries; now she has reached womanhood, she can no longer avoid the odious marriage that seems to be her only option.

When animal corpses start to appear in the village square and eggs filled with blood are found in the chicken coops, panic rises. The villagers look to Yana for hope. She knows all about the monsters that stalk the night, monsters that only she can vanquish. But Yana is a liar. And monsters come in all different forms.

Yana and Anka become unlikely allies in hatching a plot to save both Koprivci and Anka from their fates. But then their plan takes on a horrifying life of its own...

'[A] tale of dark secrets, unnatural lusts and hidden violence' Annie Garthwaite, author of Cecily

'Poetic, visceral, dark... A terrifying read' Isabelle Schuler, author of Lady Macbethad

'An exquisitely-written feminist vampire story. . . Mesmerising' Anna Mazzola, author of The Clockwork Girl

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529953855
• Artikelnr.: 72522648

Autorenporträt

Anna Kovatcheva was born in Bulgaria and holds an MFA in fiction from New York University. Her chapbook, The White Swallow, was selected by Aimee Bender as the winner of the Goldline Press Chapbook Competition and published in 2015. Her short fiction has been anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading, and has appeared in The Kenyon Review and The Iowa Review. In 2023, she completed her first novel while in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Rezensionen

"As a longtime fan of Anna Kovatcheva's shorter fiction, this deliciously dark debut novel delivers the same dreamlike prose I've come to admire, but digs far deeper into labyrinths of belief, desperation, and illusions of necessity. By turns horrific, atmospheric, and tender, this is a spell book that practices the best kind of magic-revealing the monsters embedded within and around us." - Sequoia Nagamatsu
"A poetic exploration of the power of stories. Inspired by Slavic folklore, the novel uses lyrical prose, realistically drawn characters, and multiple points of view to expose the monsters created to make sense of the shadows." - Library Journal
"This exciting, gorgeous novel reminded me why I love vampire stories. Rooted in folklore and peopled with characters who are hauntingly real, She Made Herself a Monster never looks away from the consequences of burying humanity's evils too shallow and too near. I still have chills." - Kate Heartfield, author of The Embroidered Book
"Poetic, visceral, dark, Kovatcheva captures the monstrous in both the mythical and the mundane. A terrifying read that will leave you looking over your shoulder long after you finish reading." - Isabelle Schuler, author of Lady Macbethad
"Kovatcheva has woven a darkly mesmerizing tale of folklore, witchcraft, and monsters that will linger at the corners of your dreams long after you've finished reading. She Made Herself a Monster is the best kind of vampire story-one in which the real evil is us." - Peng Shepherd, author of All This and More and The Cartographers
"Gorgeous and gruesome, Anna Kovatcheva's bold and atmospheric debut marks her as a star on the rise. She Made Herself a Monster pulses with folklore and reads like the best literary fiction, but at heart this is the scariest kind of fairy tale: the kind that asks you if you truly know what you should be afraid of. " - Julia Fine, author of Maddalena and the Dark