Jane Flett is a Scottish writer who lives in Berlin. Her fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featured in Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Highly Commended in the Bridport Prize and performed at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She's a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award, the New Orleans Writing Residency and the Berlin Senate Stipend for non-German literature. Freakslaw is her first novel.

An LGBTQ Reads Most Anticipated 2025 - A CrimeReads and Goodreads Most Anticipated Horror Novel of 2025

"Blending supernatural horror, queer fiction, and magical realism, Flett's debut showcases an eclectic cast of characters both beautifully bizarre and emotionally real. Fans of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes will love the carnival atmosphere, but Flett's striking story is less about good versus evil and more about the predictable comfort of conformity versus the desire to be one's true self." --Booklist (starred review)

"Holy hell, I loved this book. A carnivalesque tale spun in luscious, crackling prose, Freakslaw is the glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn's Geek Love and Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus. You know those books you want to roll around in, rub on your skin, and clasp to your heart? Freakslaw is one, and I can't wait to see what Jane Flett does next." --Chelsea G. Summers, author of A Certain Hunger

"THIS BOOK IS EVERYTHING . . . an ode to Tod Browning's Freaks, Kathryn Dunn's Geek Love, and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes . . . Grotesque, creepy, and celebratory, Freakslaw is sure to be one biggest books of the year (and possibly, one of the defining novels of the century)." --CrimeReads

"Freakslaw is a nonstop freaky, witchy, outlaw, glamour misfit fantasy--adventure fantasy, sex fantasy, revenge fantasy. Geek Love meets American Horror Story meets The Craft meets John Waters. I'd kill to run away with this circus." --Michelle Tea, author of Modern Tarot

"A grotesque tale of a freak show carnival out for blood . . . Fans of Katherine Dunn's Geek Love should snap this up." --Publishers Weekly

"Shines like neon, buzzes like a chorus of funfair bulbs--Freakslaw is a riot! To all the oddballs and beautiful freaks, this book is scrumptious vindication." --Gerardo Sámano Córdova, author of Monstrilio

"Visceral. There are no details left to the imagination, all the blood and guts, hate and joy on full display. The Freakslaw is a place for outcasts to find their voices, and Flett has certainly displayed hers as she welcomes readers to her powerful imagination. A fearsome, hopeful, cautionary tale of otherness, hatred, and rebirth." --Kirkus Reviews

"A stampede of literary brilliance, a riot of filthy delinquency" --Victoria Gosling, author of Before the Ruins

"Fans of stories about characters seeking belonging and their true selves will fall into the world Flett has created. Readers who enjoyed Seanan McGuire's Deadlands: Boneyard or the anthology Carniepunk will also find much to appreciate here." --Library Journal

Publisher: Zando

Pub date: 2025-04-01

Length: 368 pages