Description
In a remote Rhode Island parish, Stutley Tillinghast has spent decades living a carefully controlled existence—one that keeps his hunger fed and his victims buried out of sight. When a stranger arrives with his last name and a startling resemblance to the woman who made him, the connection he’s tried to suppress awakens old memories and threatens the fragile rules that have kept him human-adjacent. Soon, a sick girl draws him into a crisis only he can recognize—and only he can attempt to cure—forcing him to confront what it truly means to be a monster, and whether restraint is possible when desire turns urgent. Inspired by the nineteenth-century New England “vampire panic,” this literary horror debut blends gorgeously atmospheric prose with a darkly intimate father-daughter emotional core, asking whether we can resist our impulses—or whether we’re doomed to feed them.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Group
Published Jun 23, 2026
257 pages
ISBN: 9798217060825
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Details
First Published
2026
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Tillinghast by Clare Cavenagh.