Bodies of Work

"Clay McLeod Chapman is one of my favorite horror storytellers working today." — Jordan Peele

In this surreal, ice-cold revenge novella, a murderous artist is haunted by the ghosts of his victims. Winston Kemper, sixty-six years old and all but invisible to the world, works as a church janitor and lives alone in a small room above a garage. There, he devotes himself to his true obsession: The Butterfly Girls, an all-consuming project of words, images – and blood.

Winston has murdered women who fall through the cracks of society – the forgotten, whom no one comes looking for. He steals their voices to feed his "art." But now he hears them whispering. The dead demand vengeance. Winston doesn't believe in ghosts – but he is about to learn that they are very real. And very, very angry.

From the acclaimed author of Ghost Eaters, perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Delilah S. Dawson: a dreamlike, disturbing story about the shadows of our past and the dangerous, obsessive pursuit of art.