She Made Herself A Monster

Yana hunts monsters. Anka might be one. They'll need each other to survive. Yana, a purported vampire hunter, rides into Koprivci promising to break its curse. Since birth, Anka has shouldered blame for the village's misfortunes. After a lifetime of suspicion, she seems destined for an odious marriage that she would do anything to escape. When animal corpses appear in the square and eggs hatch filled with blood, panic rises and Yana and Anka become unlikely allies. In the dark, everybody fears something. And monsters take many forms... 'Brimming with folklore, superstitions and a dark gothic backdrop... a fantastic read' Daily Mirror 'Poetic, visceral, dark' Isabelle Schuler, author of Lady Macbethad 'A tale of dark secrets, unnatural lusts and hidden violence' Annie Garthwaite, author of Cecily 'Chilling. . . expertly blending Bulgarian folklore with very modern fears and sensibilities' Laura Shepperson, author of The Heroines

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 Gold Line 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. She Made Herself a Monster is her debut novel. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.