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Andrew Joseph White

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    • The Spirit Bares Its...
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THE SPIRIT BARES ITS TEETH

A 2023 Stonewall Honor Book & Locus Nominee


London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing.


After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness—a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness—and shipped away to Braxton’s Sanitorium and Finishing School. The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. So when the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for help, he decides to reach into Braxton’s innards and expose its rotten guts to the world—as long as the school doesn’t break him first.

Illustrator: Evangeline Gallagher

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KIRKUS - ★

BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS - ★

SHELF AWARENESS - ★

"White wields prose like a scalpel, cutting deep and spilling guts with gruesome precision... Visceral and vindicating."

SHELF AWARENESS - ★

BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS - ★

SHELF AWARENESS - ★

 "The plot's candid, often gory accounts parallel the stunningly rendered characters whose physical and emotional wounds bleed out onto the pages."

BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS - ★

BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS - ★

BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS - ★

 "White brings such raw agony, power, and desperation to his complex and layered characters..." 

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - ★

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BULLETIN OF THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S BOOKS - ★

"A frank exploration of intentional cruelty."

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SOUTHERN BOOKSELLER REVIEW

 "Gut-wrenching yet gorgeous, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth is a necessary and impressive addition to both LGBTQ and horror lit."

BOOKLIST - ★

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"Redefines the concept of a 'visceral' book... readers, take care."

Special Editions

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Art by Mars Lauderbaugh

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Art by @Chiquicreates 

Illumicrate

Art by Carolina Rodríguez Fuenmayor, Design by Jane Tibbetts

Illumicrate

Art by Niky Motekallem, internal edge papers by Adams Carvalho

international/Translated Editions

  • English/UK: Daphne Press (The Spirit Bares Its Teeth)
  • German: Cross Cult Entertainment (The Spirit Bares Its Teeth: Der Tod Besiegt Alles)
  • Czech: conQueer (Duch cení zuby)
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